Let's face the facts. Phone companies are dinosaurs. If they do not keep up with the times, they will go extinct. Right now the scramble is on for phone companies to reinvent themselves as data providers. Anyone with a smartphone will tell you they talk on the phone a lot less than they text or access the internet. The problem that the telcos are faced with, however, is that the FCC still thinks that they are a telephone company and regulates them as such. Companies such as Google and Skype who have always been an internet service provider, are not regulated in the same way that telcos are. Brendan Spaar wonders if the telcos need to take a page from Phillip Morris and totally destroy the old brand name and start new.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/12/heres-how-the-telecom-industry-plans-to-defang-their-regulators/
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/12/heres-how-the-telecom-industry-plans-to-defang-their-regulators/
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