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[Edward Wesolowski <ids AT idisplay.com>]

But, again speaking of advocating...
> Rural electrification was achived in large part through local 
> co-operatives such as Piedmont Electric, which >serves parts of Carrboro 
> and most of Orange County.
I thought that rural electrification was achieved through huge companies 
ability to establish a 60 cycles per second, AC standard, and government 
subsidies, funded by taxs, similar to the universal service tax on our 
phone bills.

And while I'm advocating (I hope there's no punishment for doing this!-), 
1940's era NTSC standard for television, comes to mind, that RCA pushed 
through. NTSC, which still haunts/lives with us today, more than a half 
century later, was, the birth of an industry. Television wouldn't have been 
possible without the standard, right?
Ed Wesolowski
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From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: Eudora::"InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>

Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Digital cash, micro-payments and
Date: 4/28/02 9:46 PM

Hey, I thought I was advocating for the devil!

But as long as we're advocating, we seem to have achieved universal 
electrical service without a national monopoly.  Rural electrification was 
achived in large part through local co-operatives such as Piedmont 
Electric, which serves parts of Carrboro and most of Orange County.  In 
fact, there are numerous small local telephone service providers, such as 
Mebtel (in Mebane), that have been there all along and are still in business.

TaB

At 09:23 PM 4/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Yeah, AT&T was an innovation powerhouse until the derned federal courts 
> broke it up.  There really hasn't been anything >significantly new in 
> telephone technology since then.  <g>
> Thomas, do you think universal service would have happened without the 
> single AT&T entity?
> Yours, advocating for the devil...
> Ed W.
>
> At 11:20 PM 4/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > At 06:01 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >  This proves a
> > > corollary of the law of increasing returns -- less market fragmentation 
> > > leads
> > > to faster evolution of related products and services. (Also a good 
> > > example of
> > > the positive effect that government regulation can have in the technology
> > > sector. In this case, it's esp. impressive as it required cross-border
> > > cooperation.)
> >
> > Yeah, AT&T was an innovation powerhouse until the derned federal courts 
> > broke it up.  There really hasn't been anything significantly new in 
> > telephone technology since then.  <g>
> >
> > TaB
> >
> >
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