The vast majority of this is a boondoggle.

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The difference is that there's really not a cost advantage or economies of scale that limit the number of providers. So they're just in the pool with everyone else now.

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They're seeing their entire model being threatened.

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It will become the phone industry.

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This is why the Internet-phone industry is probably going to replace entirely what we might call loosely the analog method of phone calls over a period of years.

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Congress was more concerned about constituents waking up in the morning sometime in 2009 and finding out that their televisions didn't work, and they couldn't get the sports show that they wanted. They were more concerned about that than they were about reducing the deficit or keeping taxes low or saving billions of dollars for the taxpayers.

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