Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Doing only that which brings the most profit. Message-ID: <4238@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 00:45:51 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4238 Posted: Sun Aug 19 00:45:51 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 00:45:51 EDT References: <740@ubc-ean.CDN> <1050@dciem.UUCP>, <999@hcrvax.UUCP>, <8680@watmath.UUCP>, <4226@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 > >...And the telephone companies can finance their own way through long > >distance charges. > > But why should they do so, if providing remote locations with service > is not *profitable*? Why not drop the unprofitable aspects of the > business, as I have heard people argue in this news group? But why *isn't* it profitable? Usually, because the government is setting the rates in an arbitrary and capricious way that has nothing to do with actual costs. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry