Take a Lesson from Mexico-Break up our Telecom Monopoly

[FORD]

[ZahZoo]

That's already been done here... remember AT&T... Ma Bell... Baby Bells... etc...

No real lesson to be learned from what's happening in Mexico... In the technology sector alone you can look at anti-trust/monopoly suits over the last 60 years with IBM, Microsoft, AT&T, etc... I don't see where any of the anti-trust activities really made that much of a difference in the market. In some cases the general markets came and went through normal transformation without any government interference.

[FORD]

That's already been done here... remember AT&T... Ma Bell... Baby Bells... etc...

No real lesson to be learned from what's happening in Mexico... In the technology sector alone you can look at anti-trust/monopoly suits over the last 60 years with IBM, Microsoft, AT&T, etc... I don't see where any of the anti-trust activities really made that much of a difference in the market. In some cases the general markets came and went through normal transformation without any government interference.

Breaking up AT&T was the right move. The problem was that before that situation was even finalized, Reagan & the BCE had begun this ridiculous 30 year toilet spiral of deregulation, and stopped enforcing the Sherman antitrust act.

There's no reason why South Korea should have 100MBPS internet access for $30/month while we pay twice that much for a lousy 12 - 20 MBPS (or worse, if you have DSL). Or Europe, for that matter.

No reason....except for the fact that corporations are properly regulated and infrastructure belongs to the public, rather than corporations who think they are "people".

[Nitro Express]

They have telephones in Mexico?