home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky tor.general:1503 ont.general:2018 can.general:5286
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!utgpu!attcan!telly!problem!torag!richard
- From: richard@torag.guild.org (Richard Quan)
- Newsgroups: tor.general,ont.general,can.general
- Subject: Re: Long-Distance: Who's got the Feeling now?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.064943.26902@torag.guild.org>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 06:49:43 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.070035.19358@torag.guild.org> <1992Nov4.153540.7070@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Distribution: can
- Organization: Torag Public Access Unix, Toronto
- Lines: 30
-
- In article <1992Nov4.153540.7070@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> liana@nexus.yorku.ca (Liana Becker) writes:
- >A couple of brief things.
- >
- >I did some reading on this demonopolizing and I'm not sure how much
- >it will benefit us.
- >
- >If I remember correctly the other companies are paying bell x much per
- >trunk that they use. This is based on x many lines going through a
- >trunk. In reality these companys can put more calls through then what
- >they are paying for. This is unfair to Bell.
- >
- >What I do remember correctly is that Bell is subsidizing our local
- >rates, this will probably be cancled as they will not be able to loose
- >money (remember they have to pay out dividends to the owners) or people
- >will sell their stock. So no matter what happens in the longdistance
- >battle our local rates will go up.
-
- If this were true demonopolization going on, Bell shouldn't have the local
- market cornered. Other companies should be allowed to stretch lines across
- the country/North America. I wonder how Bell is subsidizing our local rates!
- I am sure this subsidy isn't coming from those stock holders or those
- comfortable management staff of Bell. I think that it is the business
- community that is subsidizing our residential local rates; if you look at how
- much a business has to pay Bell for their service and how much hook-up is,
- then I think as it stands now, Bell shouldn't suffer that much.
-
- Assuming that not everyone makes an abundance of long-distance calls, and
- assuming that many people will continue to use Bell long-distance, the
- opportunity to sell off parts of their system to these little companies should
- be viewed as an extra for Bell rather than a loss.
-