Re: Blackberry Storm update

Larry wrote:
"Carl" <crothman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:49f48c70$0$22530$607ed4bc@xxxxxx:

In a free, capitalistic society, Larry, companies, like individuals,
have the right to produce the product they choose to produce, market
what they want to market, and sell what they want to sell (as long as
they don't lie or misrepresent). If what they produce doesn't suit the
public, then market forces should prevail to force them to adapt or to
go out of business. There is no Big Brother telling them what to do,
nor should there be (except perhaps, in the limited examples of
healthcare and finance, public-good services, areas in which
competition and market forces do not seem to work. And even that's my
own opinion.)

Companies, Verizon or otherwise, owe you nothing.

Sounds great, but doesn't wash. Sellphone companies operate on the PUBLIC'S AIRWAVES, at the PUBLIC'S convenience. It's NOT their airwaves, it's OURS, yours and mine.

So what you are saying is that since the airwaves are "ours" and even though the cell companies paid "us" substantial sums to license their use and spent billions on infrastructure and pay salaries and costs of maintenance etc the service should be free?


How about a smaller scale example? Our local county owns a park/recreation area that has a lake. They rent a space to a family that has a concession stand and also a boat rental. Since according to your thinking the space is "ours" would it be OK for you to show up and demand free boat rental and then when you are done get a free burger, fries and a drink? Why not? Clearly the park is "ours" and even though the family pays rent, buys and maintains the boats and purchases supplies for the stands what gives them the right to charge for that service?




Now, all we have to do to correct these problems is fire the *** lawyers at the FCC who are SUPPOSED to be looking our for OUR interests, not theirs, and put the stoic old engineers who used to look out for OUR interests back at the helm of the FCC before the lawyercrooks got rid of them.

Without a LICENSE, Verizon can do anything it wants to anyone it wants any way it wants outside of a felony, of course. If we simply tell the Verizon shell companies that hold the licenses how WE think sellphones should be marketed in America, and if they disagree we'll simply CANCEL their licenses to find someone who wishes to be in the sellphone business with a more ethical and friendly manner....we can!

You cannot drive your car any shitty old way you like because you are LICENSED by the people to have that priviledge. Similarly, sellphone companies are LICENSED to provide a level of service the owners of the airwaves, US, expect them to provide as a REQUIREMENT for us issuing them a valid radio operation license on OUR airwaves. That license can be revoked, making sellphone companies a LOT more friendly to its customers in the process.....(c;]


It would seem your major "level of service" problem is that you are asked to pay to use their system.


Putting the old engineers back in charge of the FCC will have a nice secondary effect, too. They'll rebuild the broadcasting business by going back to the rules and regulations like forcing broadcasters who want a LICENSE renewed to actually provide PROGRAMMING for 40 minutes of every hour, instead of it just being a little fill-in between the incessant commercials American TV has on it now under the lawyers.

Just imagine....TV with something to WATCH on it, again! What a concept!



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