Jim,
Odd, given your arguments, that, with the good advice Mr B received at the EC,
we do not see him at the helm of some more adventurous venture.
Why would a man so much more in possession of the facts than most choose merely
to learn Spanish at such a high salary when he could have burst from his
straitjacket and reaped the rewards of entrepreneurial endeavour according to
your account below?
Was it that he did not believe his own rhetoric and polemic? Surely not.
Someone not entirely convinced of the merit of your visionary position might
erroneously hazard a guess that age, corruption and treachery will always beat
youth, truth and bravery.....
Jim Dixon wrote:
> (*) I know of nothing in American history to parallel the recent sacking
> -- OK, OK, mass resignation under pressure -- of the European
> Commissioners. And few were surprised or shocked, though many were
> angry, when the head of DG XIII, the telecommunications directorate,
> then accepted a position paying about $1 million a year with Telefonica,
> the Spanish telco, while he was still responsible for regulating it.
The Internet's amazing and continuing growth has
shattered the complacency of telcos and governments alike. What is a
commonplace is that by 2001 most telecoms traffic everywhere will be
data, not voice. By 2005 voice will be a tiny fraction of the bandwidth
in use, and all of the equipment, practices, laws, and regulations
developed over the last century of voice telecommunications will be
obsolete and irrelevant. No matter how hard the bureaucrats try to
stuff this huge and growing elephant into the straitjacket that they
developed for the mouse that they are used to, it just ain't gonna fit.
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