17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 07:02 PM 11/14/96 -0800, Dave Del Torto wrote:
Um, a _better_ one, now that government monopolies are largely out of the way, leaving significant infrastructure for them to use? There's this one little company called MCI, see, and there's this _other_ little company called BT, and...
There are now 150 Long Distance telephone companies in the US vs 1 when I was a kid. There are now 5 or 6 broadcast and 150 cable TV networks in the US vs 3 when I was a kid. There will soon be 5 cellular and PCS companies in NYC vs 0 when I was a kid. There are now 6000 ISPs vs 0 when I was a kid. DCF