Comments on: Did taxpayers help pay for Telco infrastructure? http://mitsopoulos.net/?p=96 Insight from George Mitsopoulos on Telecom, Technology, Marketing & Customer Service Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:35:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: FCC appears to be settling on the National Broadband Plan… – TyBox.ca http://mitsopoulos.net/?p=96&cpage=1#comment-116 FCC appears to be settling on the National Broadband Plan… – TyBox.ca Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:35:28 +0000 http://mitsopoulos.net/?p=96#comment-116 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: allisonQ http://mitsopoulos.net/?p=96&cpage=1#comment-15 allisonQ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:18:24 +0000 http://mitsopoulos.net/?p=96#comment-15 You ask: "Are the phone companies really paying to install their fiber networks? It is evident in this case that it is the consumers paying to have them installed and the phone companies are benefiting from it." Isn't this how business is supposed to work? Consumers pay for a service, generating revenues for a business. Business uses those revenues 1.) to maintain service and 2.) to invest in improvements. So yes, consumers pay to install the fiber networks by paying for service. And then they benefit from it with their much-improved service. Where's the problem here? You ask: “Are the phone companies really paying to install their fiber networks? It is evident in this case that it is the consumers paying to have them installed and the phone companies are benefiting from it.”

Isn’t this how business is supposed to work? Consumers pay for a service, generating revenues for a business. Business uses those revenues 1.) to maintain service and 2.) to invest in improvements. So yes, consumers pay to install the fiber networks by paying for service. And then they benefit from it with their much-improved service.

Where’s the problem here?

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