Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> In discussing whether telecom should be deregulated, and how, I would not like to get stuck on whether congressmen took bribes (it amazes me to see so much consensus on the list that they did, yet the supposedly liberal media says nothing? In India, we think we have lots more corruption, yet ministers, even a state governer, are getting sacked for relatively far smaller matters -- just an aside). There was in fact a suggestion that we should not take the present legislation as a given, and fight for something better. Fine. so let me ask: 1) Do many on this list join Richard in favoring going back to the state of affairs we had prior to this legislation? Craig pointed out all sorts of flaws in that, including a judge making a career of ordering AT&T about. I personally feel that technological developments needed to be addressed, and while the telecom deregulation act may have done this badly, at least it was an attempt. So, if the answer to this question is yes, we needed some degree of deregulation, the next question becomes: 2) Exactly how would you have gone about deregulating telecom? What parts of the new law would you keep, what would you replace, and with what? Arun Mehta, B-69 Lajpat Nagar-I, New Delhi-24, India. Phone 6841172,6849103 http://mahavir.doe.ernet.in/~pinaward/arun.htm ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
