On Feb 11, 2008 8:39 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:38:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I'm going to guess that Telmex is a state-owned utility and not a > > private monopoly? That would explain the better service right > > there... > > I don't know how it is elsewhere, but in Romania the telephone company > got a LOT better after being privatised.
Privatization works in third-world economies. Give it time: As soon as they realize they're a monopoly and has a newly relatively rich Romanian public by the balls, expect service to decline and prices to climb. Day 396 waiting for Qwest to fix my broken phone line... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
