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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Doing only that which brings the most profit.
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Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 00:45:51 EDT
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> >...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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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