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Internet Phones, 911 Systems Could Clash Full Story When a public service gets privatized, such problems are unavoidable. Most of the public services are costy, especially when offering a convenient service. Private companies, in contrast, pay attention to their income, and therefore they will be obliged to sacrifice the quality of service to make the price affordable. Privatized London Underground is a good example: Londoners know what I mean... The Internet business is so attractive that it can't be blocked this easy, at least in a vast country like US. Even in Iran, in spite of the fact that telecommunication service is strongly being monitored by the state, and also the anxieties about political/economical impacts of Internet getting popular, the pay as you go phone cards and Internet cards became accessible very quick, simply because the business makes a good profit. But what generally annoys me is the "terms and conditions" written in "fine letters". They are usually of no help to the customer, but a hole for the service provider to escape from claims and sues. I could be wrong, but sometimes I cannot stop thinking that some level of socialism can be useful for the community. Improving public services is usually a matter of taxing policy, and there's always a boring debate whether or not rich people have to pay for services that only poor people use them. In the first sight it looks like money is fleeing from rich wallets, but the big gap formed nowadays between rich and poor (especially in the very US) and the social/cultural crises resulted in by, leads me to the idea that having a low income secured in long term is of considerable value that it's worth suppressing the greed for "taking it all"... Posted @ 2/19/2004 06:45:00 AM ______________________________________________
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