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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 14:26:07 GMT
- From: jadams@vixen.cc.bellcore.com (adams,john)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: The Future of Wired vs Wireless Services
- Message-ID: <telecom13.1.12@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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- I hope fellow netters will pick up this discussion, but for the moment,
- my $.02:
-
- In case you suspect that any of the following represents any parties
- opinions other than my own, allow me to reassure you that these are
- *MINE*, only *MINE*!
-
- I suspect that outside sociological, economic, and political pressures
- will do more to answer the posed question than mere technology alone.
- Issues such as the makeup of the future family, ecological issues, the
- global "shrinking" phenomina and others will sharply influence what
- types of telecommunication prevail. Will technology alone "make
- markets"? Evidence abounds that it takes more than shear technical
- brilliance to make a difference. I suspect that each of us who earns
- her/his daily bread in this industry needs to sharpen our focus on the
- other "softer" sciences. At least from my perspective, the softer
- sciences are indeed *MUCH* harder to master than those we use daily.
-
- Will the current industry infrastructure (Don't you just love the way
- we can beat this politicisms to death :-) ) remain viable by 2010? I
- sure don't know! But lack of knowledge never stopped me before ;-)!
- When all else fails, the basic survival instinct is alive and well in
- most businesses. My only concern is that the Bumbling Baristers of
- Boondoggleville (aka Washington Beltway Bandits) will somehow seek to
- call *ALL* the plays in telecommunications in the future.
-
- Competition? ... you bet! But let's have some real competition, not
- the contrived kind we have all witnessed as fashioned by the warring
- lobbyists on the steps of the Capital.
-
- Remember that *NO* business will remain in business without a proper
- profit to reward those risk takers who provide the fuel of any
- venture. Profit is not a dirty word! I am convinced that rate of
- return regulation will die a natural death before the year 2000.
- While price cap regulation seems to be in vogue with our lawyer
- friends(?), I'm almost positive that zero regulation (price/cost only)
- will be in effect by 2010.
-
-
- Jack (John) Adams Bellcore NVC 2Z-220
- (908) 758-5372 {Voice} (908) 758-4389 {Facsimile}
- jadams@vixen.bellcore.com kahuna@attmail.com
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