It's one thing to be competing with large companies, but it's another
altogether to be competing with a company that can take advantage of
internal pricing to get ahead.
So why don't we do something about it? It appears to me (and I've said
this before, and others have said it before me) that the only way the
independant ISP is going to survive is by uniting and forming a strong
lobby who has the power to make sure that these anti-trust issues are kept
under control. Has anyone started such a "lobby" or club? It appears if
enough ISPs can make small contributions the financial power of them as a
whole could make us the strongest presence on the net, which is what we
should be.
-Jason
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, doc wrote:
> >
> > > Bet that Pacific Bell Internet doesn't pay the same prices for incoming lines
> > > and such nor suffer the same delays that the rest of us do when attempting to
> > > obtain service from Pacific Bell. They aren't competing directly with the
> > > rest of their customers. They aren't using internal pricing advantages on
> > > circuits to price the rest of their customers out of existance. THAT's the
> > > definition of anti-trust last I looked.
> >
> > Right, can you have a case you can try to pursue. What I was talking
> > about is if the FCC and/or RBOC's charge us more because we are ISP's we
> > will have a case as well. They are not doing that (yet) and I don't know
> > if they will be able to. PacBell should have tarriffs placed on them
> > requarding how they operate their ISP service.
>
> It's even worse here in Cincinnati, where the same guy we deal with
> for large accounts and ordering things like PRI's is also one of the
> lead account rep's for FUSE, Cincinnati Bell's ISP service. :-(
>
> How's -that- for a conflict of interest?
>
>
> >
> > -Matt
> >
>
>
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