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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:31:26 -0800
- From: gast@CS.UCLA.EDU (David Gast)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Regulating Cellular
- Message-ID: <telecom12.857.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 857, Message 7 of 11
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- I don't believe anyone else has posted anything on this topic, so I'll
- take a stab at it. A couple weeks ago, the {LAT} reported that the CA
- PUC is considering regulating cellular rates because cellular remains
- too expensive. Representatives of the cellular industry said that
- cellular is priced at market, not cost. They also maintained that
- lower rates would increase demand and result in higher prices.
-
- The article noted, as I recall, that hardware prices have fallen 90%,
- but air time has not really changed at all over the last eight years
- or so.
-
- Could it be the real intent is to increase the number of cullular
- carriers beyond two? Of course, the PUC cannot do that directly.
-
-
- david
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