On Sun 04 Aug at 05:01 Ian Smith (3:626/660{at}fidonet) wrote to Dave Hatch:

 IS> Don't worry, our entire national telecommunications 
 IS> infrastructure will be handed on a plate to your overseas 
 IS> masters soon enough; few remember Chile, fewer still care 
 IS> ought but for the proffered pieces of silver.

Associate Professor Rohan Samarajiva of Ohio State University gave an
interesting account of the privatisation of Telmex (Mexican carrier) at the
Consumers' Telecommunications Network annual conference last week.

Good regulation of the carriers is necessary for good modem operation by
design rather than by good luck.

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