Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in
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> Diamond Dave <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:n7bdu2lpj2j7mmd6cqgcf78que5ofilrff@4ax.com:
>
>> Nothing to do with the FCC. Its a business practice. VZW does the
>> same thing.
>>
>> Dave
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>>
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>
> FCC is tasked with providing the public with rules and regulations on
> its public carriers, including Verizon Wireless, that use the public's
> airwaves and sell to the public services on those airwaves. This has
> everything to do with the FCC, providing the public with an enforced
> level of service over the area the FCC has licensed the carriers (or
> their bogus network companies, it matters not) to provide. FCC
> regulates the signal, regulates to minimize interference and is
> supposed to protect the public it is supposed to serve against being
> ripped off.
>


Yeah- for evidence of their successful efforts, see Cable Television.
Their decision to not force sharing of transmission lines (as they did with
telephone) was certainly in the best interest of the consumer.