Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Proof that capitalism doesn't
work (Score 1) 163  Ruining it? You must be joking.... Or,
merely naive? Forcing AT&T to increase performance while
decreasing price might, must might, reduce their profit margin
from nearly infinite to something you can compute with long
double precision. Remember AT&T used to make over 1200% profit
on caller-id. And that was computed using the special accounting
rules that only AT&T and the baby bells get to use.  Comment:
Re:no, telcos 20+ years old don't get same conditi (Score 2) 163
I live just out side of Austin (groan... there goes my property
value...) and I've been watching this mess for a long time.
Austin started to build a network like this one back in the
'90s. Then the telcos used their pet politicos to get a law pass
in Texas that makes it illegal for a City to build its own
network. That was the end of high speed Internet hopes for
cities in Texas. Then, AT&T. Verizon, Time Warner, and Comcast
got pissed off because the cities