ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

Tue Aug 23 21:42:51 UTC 2005

Richard Z <rzheng at gmail.com>
> I think that big carriers have successfully convinced regulators that
> the telecom deregulation in late nineties was bad for the industry.

does not take much convincing in dc that what is good for big business
is good for america these days.

> It certainly destroyed quite a few big companies, e.g. MCI and AT&T.

no.  they did brilliant jobs of destroying themselves, in two very
different ways.

randy