🚀 go-pugleaf

I would just like to know what We can do about it.  Is this something
that could be voted on by US Citizens, or is this one of those lofty
issues that involve our pocketbooks that some higher power has decided
we ought not concern ourselves with - and if that's the case, who do
we send our verbal or written protests to?  Is this something our
Senators would have any influence over?  What really aggravates me is
when some high, untouchable, unimpeachable professional bureaucrat who
is a willing target of professional lobbyists and all the corruption
that goes on gets to spend money right out of our pockets in this way
and we just sit here and talk.  So, if anyone has a clue to whose
(singular or plural) attention we can bring this to (Email address
would of course be preferred), I for one would prefer to vent my
displeasure to those who can do something about it.

krw@ibm.net wrote:

>In <5dt8ul$q2b@imagine.convex.com>, jerryw@convex.com (Jerry Whelan) writes:
>>In article <5dsorm$7l$1@news.iastate.edu>,
>>Kurt Glaesemann <kurtg@iastate.edu> wrote:
>>
>>-} It's about time that people start paying for what they are using.  Using
>>-} modems to connect to the internet costs the phone companies huge amounts of
>>-} money because it's resulted in a huge surge in phone usage.
>>
>>Not all phone companies are experiencing these kinds of problems.  I
>>believe BellSouth is one of the larger baby bells that is not complaining
>>about congestion due to modem usage.  The reason?  Good planning.  If
>>the reports about BellSouth are true, the problem here is not Internet
>>users being subsidized by other kinds of phone users, it is baby bells
>>who are guilty of poor management.
>
>  Duh.  How are they going to go to the PSB and demand higher rates?  I
>  think this is very poor planning!
>>
>>The local telephone companies that didn't have enough management foresight
>>to anticipate the change in usage patterns and plan appropriately are
>>the ones complaining that they need more money.  Many Internet users
>>have purchased second phone lines for their modem usage, typically
>>costing $60-70 to install and then another $20+ per month, that right
>>there is a substantial amount of money that the local telcos are receiving.
>>In fact, many people pay more for their second lines than they do for
>>Internet access itself.
>
>  Umm, let me see.  I pay about $28/month for my "basic" phone service.  I
>  pay ~$20 for my internet access ans about another $25 for my local phone
>  charges for my Internet time.  I think they are well compensated.  
>
>  I would add a second line, but it is just too expensive!  I cannot see
>  another $50/mo for a phone line.
>>
>>Furthermore, if the local telcos had not mishandled the deployment of
>>ISDN by insisting on such outrageous pricing that most people couldn't
>>afford to buy it, they would not be in this predicament right now
>>either. 
>
>  Please, tell it to someone in the real world.  ISDN just does not
>  exist here.  As much as I hate our cable company, I'm rooting for
>  them to figure out how to din Inet.  They are about as bad as NYNEX
> so who knows.
>
>  <The rest snipped - all agreed - except the Telcos could care less
>  about thechnology or performance.  They want to milk the investment.
>  Bring on the competition!>
>----
>  Keith R. Williams
>
>


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