[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
And not just on lower prices and better service, but actually more freedom and choice.
Cross-border roaming was the last thing that was still unregulated. Other than that, Europe is a telecommunications paradise for businesses and consumers compared to the US.
Bad regulations is not the same as unregulated.
And all because of regulation.
This is simply not universally true. The cell market doesn't exist without regulation. If any company can throw up a tower on any frequency and start a cell company the end paying customer is going to have a horrible experience.
It is a fallacy to believe that frequency regulation is needed for services to come to market. Coopetition does happen in the real world (see all the devices made for open spectrum like 2.4ghz)
47 CFR 15 (and other countries' equivalents) probably counts as regulations.
I'm outta here I just thought the userbase here would be less liberal.
Have fun back at your anti-vaccination ultra-Christian extreme right-wing shill site, paid for by the Koch brothers in the hope that poor people will keep voting against their own interests (yup, we can say emotional trigger-words instead of presenting facts as well, just like you can!)
The very reasons to maintain some form of roaming charges comes down to, who built the towers? Who invested in the hardware, software, and persons, working to provide the service? I do not care one wit about this claim "public resources" when it comes to cell phones? Why not? Because it is a patent excuse to take. The same excuse is used when people want specific speech censored from the airwaves but not another. However, hell and high water reign should the same taking be done to something techies hold near and dear to their hearts, you would never see them support taking of speech rights or such with regards to their blogs, sites, and whatnot.
Back to roaming charges. Should we not then force nation states to not charge access fees to their networks? Many do. They charge carriers for calls going into their state owned agencies.
Simply put, don't allow roaming charges and costs will be spread to anyone using a cell phone, whether they roam or not. You cannot legislate away costs, you certainly can profit, but I guess the private investor should have known better. Kind of like government bonds, they are only really guaranteed the day they are written