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The public also benefit if municipalities can charge fair market prices and use the income to fund projects that more directly benefit residents, or lower taxes
by whyenot 9y ago
The public also benefit if municipalities can charge fair market prices and use the income to fund projects that more directly benefit residents, or lower taxes. Forcing local governments to charge below market rates is little more than corporate welfare for the telecom industry.
- mcny 9y ago> Forcing local governments to charge below market rates is little more than corporate welfare for the telecom industry. I am sorry I spoke without understanding the entire situation but I have sincerely zero sympathy for local governments in this case. I concede I'm wrong though. The problem I see now is here is the fact that an incumbent will "rent" all the good spots for free, claim it is under development, or somehow basically starve competition. I hadn't thought of that. I was trying to avoid the situation like when the first 3G iPhone came out and Cingular was saying things like they can't find anywhere to put network equipment in San Francisco. Basically, my thought was this pits two categories of rent seekers against each other and was hoping that we could exert pricing controls on wireless carriers using this but I was clearly too optimistic.