[wellylug] Nightmares on Paradise (solved)

[Chris Hodgetts]

How come Telescunge can keep getting away with anti-competitive
practices?

What is its telecunge's concern if an ISP provides a Static-IP - why do
they care?

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:25, jumbophut wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:28:02 +1200, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> > 
> > Why put the billions of dollars of investment into these projects if you
> > are going to only use 1/2 of the capacity..
> > 
> 
> Under a monopoly (or near-monopoly) a profit-maximising form will sell
> fewer units than the socially-optimal number which would prevail in a
> competitive market, driving the price up in the process.  Monopolist
> (or cosy oligopoly) wins, the consumer loses.  This is why there are
> anti-monopoly laws.
> 
> Apologies for the intrusion of economics into this list. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')
>