3/26/2011
AT&T trying to buy T Mobile
The biggest offense to business; the government using the rules of Anti trust law only when they have a company that is a great donor or a company that have large amounts of money for lobbyists!
Under Ronald Reagan AT&T and Bell was forced to split they was towering over every other company out there and their lines was paid for by the tax payer through subsidies from the government over 50 years. All the main transmission line were built by the government and a small company had to go through AT&T and General Tel the only two companies with control over 90% of the phone lines in America; these are phone line we all paid for already.
Reagan was correct to level the field for younger and smaller companies that did not have government financing and allow them access to the same lines. Well they did open them but by the time the politicians got done and the lobbyist got involved they did break up Bell and AT&T giving the growth of MCI, Sprint and about twenty other smaller companies around the country. But they had to run their own trunks the major phone lines and trunk lines were still controlled by General Tel, and AT&T!
AT&T just had been separated from bells direct to customer structure.
It was sprint and MCI that pushed us into the fiber world, AT&T and General Tel sat back collecting and saving money while younger businesses started with nothing and was building a new world of communications, Like sprints first fiber optic lines through the rocky mountains.
The young entrepreneurial companies were doing things that would rival the building of the great rail road over a hundred years earlier. All because they have a chance; this is why America has anti trust laws, or as most people think of them protections from any one, or group of companies controlling and stifling any market through monopolizing that market.
Over the Nineteen Ninety’s we seen satellite TV monopolized by General motors and Hughes Electronics with the government’s help Taking an industry that was offering customer service to home users and competition that was driving the price cheaper and cheaper, to the two provider monopoly we have now with Direct TV and Dish Network!! High price and low customer service.
The nineties also gave us the banking and insurance mergers that created monopolies in both areas and we have high pricing and failures in both areas. As well as allowing investment banking with Savings and loans. They were separated after the great depression because banks would invest personal savings in high risk investments. Now we have a banking bail out; Proof is in the pudding people!!
Twenty five years later and we are looking at the Bell phone companies remerged with AT&T and General Tel now known as Verizon, buying up every competitor leaving them to decide what we all pay for service.
Alltel was offering cheaper service and unlimited bandwidth on network usage so Verizon bought them out and just eliminated their programs!
Now we see AT&T trying to buy T Mobile for the same reasons they will soon be dead and gone if you let this sale go through. And we will have set back the clocks twenty five years. Stagnate and a stop in growth of smaller companies in that market!
Lowell Kinnee
The biggest offense to business; the government using the rules of Anti trust law only when they have a company that is a great donor or a company that have large amounts of money for lobbyists!
Under Ronald Reagan AT&T and Bell was forced to split they was towering over every other company out there and their lines was paid for by the tax payer through subsidies from the government over 50 years. All the main transmission line were built by the government and a small company had to go through AT&T and General Tel the only two companies with control over 90% of the phone lines in America; these are phone line we all paid for already.
Reagan was correct to level the field for younger and smaller companies that did not have government financing and allow them access to the same lines. Well they did open them but by the time the politicians got done and the lobbyist got involved they did break up Bell and AT&T giving the growth of MCI, Sprint and about twenty other smaller companies around the country. But they had to run their own trunks the major phone lines and trunk lines were still controlled by General Tel, and AT&T!
AT&T just had been separated from bells direct to customer structure.
It was sprint and MCI that pushed us into the fiber world, AT&T and General Tel sat back collecting and saving money while younger businesses started with nothing and was building a new world of communications, Like sprints first fiber optic lines through the rocky mountains.
The young entrepreneurial companies were doing things that would rival the building of the great rail road over a hundred years earlier. All because they have a chance; this is why America has anti trust laws, or as most people think of them protections from any one, or group of companies controlling and stifling any market through monopolizing that market.
Over the Nineteen Ninety’s we seen satellite TV monopolized by General motors and Hughes Electronics with the government’s help Taking an industry that was offering customer service to home users and competition that was driving the price cheaper and cheaper, to the two provider monopoly we have now with Direct TV and Dish Network!! High price and low customer service.
The nineties also gave us the banking and insurance mergers that created monopolies in both areas and we have high pricing and failures in both areas. As well as allowing investment banking with Savings and loans. They were separated after the great depression because banks would invest personal savings in high risk investments. Now we have a banking bail out; Proof is in the pudding people!!
Twenty five years later and we are looking at the Bell phone companies remerged with AT&T and General Tel now known as Verizon, buying up every competitor leaving them to decide what we all pay for service.
Alltel was offering cheaper service and unlimited bandwidth on network usage so Verizon bought them out and just eliminated their programs!
Now we see AT&T trying to buy T Mobile for the same reasons they will soon be dead and gone if you let this sale go through. And we will have set back the clocks twenty five years. Stagnate and a stop in growth of smaller companies in that market!
Lowell Kinnee
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