Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Divestiture, Business and the General Public Message-ID:Date: 16 Aug 89 15:54:38 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: goudreau@rtp48.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 302, message 7 of 9 >I just want to call home! I eventually succeeded, but I vowed to fight >any similar efforts to deregulate Canada's telecommunications industry. >Digression: airline deregulation is similarly bad. The benefits are >lost in the enormously higher risks as airlines ignore safety (take >Eastern Airlines, for example, (please?)). >Richard Sargent Internet: richard@pantor.UUCP >Systems Analyst UUCP: uunet!pantor!richard You picked a poor analogy by criticizing airline deregulation's effect on safety. In fact, according to a recent article in the _Economist_, the decline in accidents & deaths per US aviation passenger mile has continued unabated, even throughout the past decade of deregulation. The truth is not that airline deregulation has led to "enormously higher risks"; rather, deregulation has had little effect on the historically increasing airline safety level. Bob Goudreau +1 919 248 6231 Data General Corporation ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!goudreau 62 Alexander Drive goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA