<div dir="ltr">I use the word "own" lightly. The infrastructure was/is subsidized by taxpayers, so it's not exactly theirs. The painful solution (for AT&T) is to return ownership of the lines to the state, which would potentially open up the market to the competition we all know is needed.<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hmm. This is an interesting economic problemo. Georgia Power and ATL Gas Light are not exactly fonts of rectitude in the public interest. I agree that the current ISP oligopoly in most of the country is sinful and bad. I'd much rather see ruthless competition on price and service, but it's a little difficult to figure how to do that when one company owns much of the infrastructure.<br>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div>