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The cost as with most things in the United States

exceeds that actual cost by a whole lot that is really does. Do I have numbers? Not really but the bottom line is with the ubiquity of transmission lines in major metropolitan areas and the fact we have been doing this for over 10 years the cost is now mere pennies if not less.

This is a prime example of what I have been talking about with American corporations. They are too big and the power they now wield no SMB is safe and neither are the customers. In this case several SMB's are being hurt financially because two of the "big boys" on the block have decided not to negotiate or put their undersized ******* away and come to a mutual agreement based on real data.

So now the consumer and small business has to suffer until either these two nit-wits come to an agreement or the Feds step in and force a solution.

This can happen in just about any industry. And what if a medical research center is trying to diseminate it's findings, but can't because some twits are fighting over who is bigger and who owes who?

Who suffers if a surgeon in Europe is needed to assist an American surgeon in a critical surgery but they cannot communicate via the internet with video? This is a reality and these two companies are prime examples of capitalism and corporations out of control.

It needs to stop. And these companies need to be held accountable for their negative impact on the population.

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