Do you really think that Fibertel was a decent ISP?
They were practically the only ones doing bandwidth throttling in Argentina, they were operating with an illegal license since they are not transferable (it is heavily regulated) without the state's approval, and they were the ones that allowed the prosecution [In spanish] of their own customers for P2P downloads.
I do think that there should be a way to keep the company going because Telecom and Telefónica aren't much better and competition is always welcome but Fibertel only exists in big cities, so don't worry about small towns, they are doing fine with local cooperatives and local ISP until Fibertel arrives and uses Cablevision/Multicanal monopoly to drive them out of business.
Typically, seizing the assets of the wealthy in order to redistribute them to the masses leads to majority unemployment and hyperinflation. Just like twentieth-century South America.
Or present-day Zimbabwe. You're right: uncontrolled, ad-hoc, and chaotic confiscation produces economic mayhem. Granted, in all these cases, the economic populism was also coupled with a thoroughly rotten political system (take, say, Peronism) which confuses the analysis somewhat.
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Do you really think that Fibertel was a decent ISP? They were practically the only ones doing bandwidth throttling in Argentina, they were operating with an illegal license since they are not transferable (it is heavily regulated) without the state's approval, and they were the ones that allowed the prosecution [In spanish] of their own customers for P2P downloads.
I do think that there should be a way to keep the company going because Telecom and Telefónica aren't much better and competition is always welcome but Fibertel only exists in big cities, so don't worry about small towns, they are doing fine with local cooperatives and local ISP until Fibertel arrives and uses Cablevision/Multicanal monopoly to drive them out of business.
They were by far the most restrictive ISP: See http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs#Argentina
No Tiger Woods related jokes yet? Is this slashdot or what?
Or present-day Zimbabwe. You're right: uncontrolled, ad-hoc, and chaotic confiscation produces economic mayhem. Granted, in all these cases, the economic populism was also coupled with a thoroughly rotten political system (take, say, Peronism) which confuses the analysis somewhat.
What is this? Oh, just another uninformed slashdot post.
of course she wasn't... she was the first woman "the first US woman to earn a PhD in computer science" RTFA, or at least the summary!