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I'm 100% convinced that all telecoms are bastards. Fortunately, regulation seems to help at least a little bit, but you kinda have to be prepared to wage some
by rollcat 2y ago
I'm 100% convinced that all telecoms are bastards.
Fortunately, regulation seems to help at least a little bit, but you kinda have to be prepared to wage some war - or eat your losses.
(Just lost a phone number that has been my primary for over 7 years; that's after losing another one that I held on to for 11 years... Not to mention all the smaller stuff, like how contracts/extra packages are structured once you go over the month's limit.)
- Akronymus 2y ago> I'm 100% convinced that all telecoms are bastards. The one I use literally just increases how much data is included with my plan, rather than increasing the price. I quite like it. (I don't think it's available outside of austria though) https://www.hot.at/ https://www.hot.at/
- dreamcompiler 2y agoCompetition is what helps even more. The Sprint/T-Mobile merger should never have been allowed to happen. Mergers are never good for consumers, despite Chicago School propaganda that says otherwise.
- Avshalom 2y agoPreventing mergers is regulation.
- darksim905 2y agoChicago School?
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- tokai 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_of_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_of_economics
- happymellon 2y agoThis is one of the reasons I get annoyed at services that require a phone number for an account. As such, I am never going to switch to Telegram or Signal unless you let me have an account that's not tied to a number. I've lost shit in the past because of this, a phone number is only a temporary identifier.
- robcohen 2y agoSignal supports usernames now.
- ImJamal 2y agoIt is still tied to your phone number though.
- happymellon 2y agoWent to Signal to sign up and it is requesting a phone number. How do I give it a username instead?
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoNot for nothin, but it is not an uncommon opinion that regulation is the root cause : Regulation = high barrier to entry in industry = monopoly/oligopoly = all telecoms are bastards.
- thatguy0900 2y agoIsn't there kind of a fundamental issue here that spectrum is a limited resource? How many competitors can there be when youre initial investment has to be a massive amount for a usable section of it
- lovethevoid 2y agoRegulation isn’t the root cause, and it usually never is the root cause as regulations are always made in reaction to, not usually proactively.
- heliodor 2y agoYou don't have to limit that first statement to telecoms.