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CPUC can't predict how well a transition like this will happen and they can't ban all telecom sales because service might be temporarily disrupted. You would be
by WillPostForFood 9y ago
CPUC can't predict how well a transition like this will happen and they can't ban all telecom sales because service might be temporarily disrupted. You would be worse off long term stuck with Verizon if they were actively trying to get out of the market. They had already killed all new investment in FIOS years ago.
- schiffern 9y ago>CPUC can't predict how well a transition like this will happen Well they could have (I can't believe I have to say this: monopolies are bad, mmkay?), but they've been captured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture There's that "transition" line again. Still nothing to back up the idea that it's a temporary situation rather than the "new normal." Or more accurately the "new low." >they can't ban all telecom sales because service might be temporarily disrupted All? Of course not. But banning ones that create monopolistic / oligopolistic situations in certain markets (the predictable effects of which are higher prices and worse service, including more frequent interruptions of service) is warranted. In a hypothetical universe where all possible mergers would result in monopolies / oligopolies (and are therefore blocked), that's a feature not a bug.
- dawnerd 9y agoIn this case they could have based on prior frontier acquisitions from Verizon. When they first announced it I googled them (because I thought they were an airline and that made no sense) and the first things that came up were about how bad the transition was elsewhere.