roundtable: Re: ISSUE LISTNAMEHEREgt; commodity pricing

roundtable: Re: ISSUE > commodity pricing

Re: ISSUE > commodity pricing

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:25:22 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:25:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: ISSUE > commodity pricing
In-Reply-To: <199503091408.AA23231@world.std.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950314172156.26432F-100000@access4.digex.net>


Fred's comments ring true, especially in light of testimony in Congress
recently by a number of state public service commissions that they will
need flexibility in the introduction of competitive pricing models, as 
the Bell Companies are forced to open their markets to competitive 
providers. 

Vigdor

Vigdor Schreibman
<fins@access.digex.net>


On Thu, 9 Mar 1995, Fred G Athearn wrote:
> 
>      I have big problems with this "issue" because the question
> seems to assume that the market we are talking about will be
> something that is not a competitive markek, but one whose
> providers are no longer regulated by price tariffs.
>  
>      In place of tariffs we are called on design a few simple
> anti-trust or anti-price discrimination rules.
>  
>      Given the fact that whatever Newt may want, the position of
> the present administration (last time I heard) was still that
> regulation will stay until competition exists, it seems like bad
> leadership for us to now try to map out a system where
> unregulated monopolies would be somewhat controlled by a few
> rules about pricing methods.
>  
>      If we are just talking here about some future time when
> there is a true free market for telecommunications then we can
> expect, almost by definition, to have commodity pricing.  Only
> a monopolist or a gangster is in a position to demand a piece of
> the action (aka value pricing).
>  
>      Is there something I'm not seeing here?
> 
> Fred Athearn
> <fga@world.std.com>

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