[IP] CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:14:05 -0800
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>

CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE

Samuelson celebrates the choices consumers have these days for pay
television, phone and high-speed Internet services and touts the coming
"wave of the future" -- Internet phone service (VoIP). But new technologies
create both opportunities and threats. VoIP, for example, could be a threat
to the $125 billion local phone networks of Verizon, BellSouth, SBC, Qwest.
Today's choices are due o the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but many
companies still compete with lawyers instead of providing better, cheaper
service. Samuelson concludes: "One way or another, the new technologies are
coming. But it would be better if Congress encouraged them by phasing out
the 1996 telecom act's outmoded regulatory requirements. Companies can
compete with each other in two ways: by deploying their lawyers and
lobbyists -- gaining competitive advantage through legislative and legal
decisions -- or by providing new technologies that offer superior service,
lower costs or both. It seems an easy choice."

[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Robert J. Samuelson]
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25468-2004Mar25.html>


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