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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request
- From: lvc@cbvox1.att.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: US Losing Lead in Telecom - USC Report
- Message-ID: <telecom13.37.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:56:10 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Organization: Ideology Busters, Inc.
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 37, Message 6 of 15
-
- In article <telecom13.32.8@eecs.nwu.edu> jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim
- Gottlieb) writes:
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- > MCMANGPH@NUSVM.BITNET (Ang Peng Hwa) writes:
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- >> like Japan, the United Kingdom, Singapore and others write off and
- >> replace equipment twice as fast as most US carriers."
-
- > I suspect it is much easier to upgrade existing facilities when your
- > country is much smaller than the vast United States.
-
- That's part of it. Another is US tax code depreciate rates for
- telecom gear are slower than other countries. If I recall correctly,
- switching equipment is depreciated over something quite large, on the
- order of 15 years. Maybe that made sense pre-AT&T divestiture when
- telecom gear didn't improve as fast as it does today.
-
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- Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
-