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Supreme Court Rules Against Community Telcos

Posted by michael on from the one-phone-company-to-rule-them-all dept.

acherrington writes "Today the Supreme Court ruled against a group of Missouri communities offering telecom services where it is prohibited by Missouri law. At least eight other states -- Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia -- have similar laws. Today's ruling will most likely result in more lobbying by the Baby Bells at the state level to stop community-sponsored telecoms who are fed up with poor service and monopolies."

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  1. Hands OFF! by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    Among the industries taken over or overregulated by the Gov:
    Rail Trains
    Pharmacies
    Telecom

    Current status:
    Rail Trains - all but dead
    Pharmacy - corrupt and overpriced
    Telecom - sucks oh so bad

    If only there were a pattern so we could learn something from this.

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  2. Re:Wow. by q-the-impaler · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Supreme Court said Wednesday that states may block cities and other local governments from setting up shop as phone service providers.

    Are you a city or local government?

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  3. Inefficient municipalities by willtsmith · · Score: 4, Funny


    You would think that the Congress of the 90s would be unafraid of small towns starting their own telcos. After all, governement is so "inefficient" in their minds that they couldn't possibly compete with such "efficient" and capable telcos like SBC, MCI and Global Crossing for services like DSL, etc....

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  4. Read the headline as... by kcubkg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I first read the headline as "Supreme Court Rules Against Taco" and thought oh jeez what has he done this time?

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  5. Tacos? by MrZaius · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow. That topic line just about gave me a heart attack.

    Thought for a second there that the Supreme Court was banning tacos.

  6. Re:Good news by ERJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank goodness someone here understands this. krem81 just made my buddy list.

  7. The Unjust Supreme Court by killjoy1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone actually think that this Supreme Court and it's ties to big business and partial views (Scalia and Cheney) will actually rule for the people? Then I've gor some land to sell you!

  8. Re:Don't forget by clickster · · Score: 2, Funny

    know having an accent does not imply stupidity. True, but when you're already stupid AND you have an accent, it makes things more amusing.

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  9. Re:Good news by jazman_777 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is there anything inherently specific about it that private companies can't provide it better than the government?

    My indoctrination in the government schools prevents its possibility.

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  10. Re:Government should only operate unprofitable biz by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunately it misses 5 state capitals:
    The five State capitals not directly served by the Interstate System are Juneau, Alaska; Dover, Delaware; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carson City, Nevada; and Pierre, South Dakota.

    Wow. How'd they get Honolulu, Hawaii connected to the Interstate system? :)