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Re:Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges by matwood on Friday September 06, 2013 @11:25AM (#6340880)
Adding more and more regulation only makes things worse for the end paying customer.

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.

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Re:Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges by jpadkins on Friday September 06, 2013 @12:52PM (#6341345)
like the wifi market? Oh right, open spectrum laws actually create useful services for consumers.

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)

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Re:Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges by kd0amg on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:52PM (#6341684)
like the wifi market?

47 CFR 15 (and other countries' equivalents) probably counts as regulations.

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Re:Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges by burgerz on Friday September 06, 2013 @11:53AM (#6341040)
You can make a similar argument about any market. It's so much easier to believe the intuitive bs that the state can just control everything and keep prices down for everyone.

I'm outta here I just thought the userbase here would be less liberal.

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Re:Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges by EliRivers on Saturday September 07, 2013 @05:15AM (#6344497)
If only there was some way to look at reality and see what can happen when government regulation is applied in the telecoms industry. If only there was some way you could read the posts above that give solid examples of where government regulation has forced competition to the massive benefit of consumers.

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!)

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