-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/08 20:03, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 8:39 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:38:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> I'm going to guess that Telmex is a state-owned utility and not a >>> private monopoly? That would explain the better service right >>> there... >> I don't know how it is elsewhere, but in Romania the telephone company >> got a LOT better after being privatised. > > Privatization works in third-world economies. Give it time: As soon > as they realize they're a monopoly and has a newly relatively rich > Romanian public by the balls, expect service to decline and prices to > climb. Day 396 waiting for Qwest to fix my broken phone line...
Every state that regulates private monopolies has something similar to what Louisiana calls the /Public Service Commission/. Call you commissioner (and your state representative, for that matter) and complain. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHsQFYS9HxQb37XmcRAtz4AJ4rm1cPy41mSzbgGypBQKCmwFu6KACfYfvd L9cJwcfrbimIU/hxefZS8h8= =D61I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
