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Why the Two-Wire World Won't Work |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: Steven R. Rivkin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,069 Words, 15,685 Characters |
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For as long as I've been a Washington lawyer, my colleagues and clients have raved about competition as the key to a new world of abundant and versatile telecommunications and information services. It all started simply enough, with both would-be competitors and consumers hammering away at the old Ma Bell to gain openings for rivals to sell telephone equipment and long-distance options.vbcrlf It was a great and good fight when the phone companies wouldn't let customers put their own covers on the Yellow Pages, when you had to rent your telephone and its color was black, period, and when there was only one, overpriced way to call long distance. So, when AT&T was separated from the local phone companies in 1982, it seemed the great fight for com...
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... best--compete in the information marketplace--rather than struggle with burdens of raising capital that are currently proving insupportable. And there would also be room for many "specialty stores" as well, purveyors of ideas that might fare far better via common infrastructure built by the electric company than they would in the dubious and uncertain world of facilities-based competition. vbcrlf
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