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All mobile phone providers in the us are more-or-less managed by the US government indirectly through FCC spectrum auction rules (and operating rules) and FTC/S
by someguydave 11y ago
All mobile phone providers in the us are more-or-less managed by the US government indirectly through FCC spectrum auction rules (and operating rules) and FTC/SEC monopoly regulation.
- jessaustin 11y agoYou've identified one link in the chain. Why not consider the management of the FCC by the Daughters Bell via lobbyists and the revolving door? (The SEC and FTC are captured by different industries.) They all dearly love extant USA spectrum policy, because they know that without it they would cease to exist in a few short years. The way to thrive without pleasing customers, is to write the rules that keep real competition out.
- someguydave 11y agoIndeed. There's a kind of 'iron polygon' that is composed of the FCC, media corps, content corps, telecom corps, cable corps, satellite corps, lobbyists, Congressional patronage, and federal and state civil servants with agendas. Each node wields power over and/or shares power with other nodes. Promotion is from within. The unifying principle of the polygon is to plan the telecommunications industry in such a fashion that the polygon remains on top. This 'organization' has no customer service line, and the existing cell-phone companies essentially work as oligopolistic - and profitable - vassals of the polygon.