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October 11, 2005
Swimming with the tide against the tide
Last week, Slate's Dan Gross held forth on how the Baby Bells might end up as has-beens in the technological race to help Americans reach out and touch, in spite of being political heavy-weights with lobbying clout and campaign cash to fling around.
It just goes to show, doesn't it? Congress may be packed with a bunch of bootlickers, but market forces might get it done for you in the end.
This looks like one of those wonderful prime situations in which the corporate behemoths try to throw their weight around and get the lawmakers to chase their competitors out of the market for them, but the little, innovative businesses simply slide around all that with new technologies and new delivery methods and, in the end, play snowball pied piper on its way down that mountain with cheerful former corporate customers chasing after it and saving money.
Maybe, instead of complaining about lawmakers who propose to let the Baby Bells refuse to share, the small ISPs should hop on the wireless bandwagon? Locate technologies with which you can offer high speed Internet access without need of using the Baby Bells' infrastructure?
I'm a bit on the technologically-challenged side, but that seems to me to be the strategy to use at this point.
Posted by The Journal Blogger at October 11, 2005 08:20 AM
