I’ve long known that telecom is a dirty game, despite pretence to the contrary. If you don’t believe me, look here. In some ways telecom is the new tobacco — just dangerous to your financial, rather than physcal, health.
Out of curiosity, I took a look at how much it costs to register a domain in Barbados. Wow! BDS$115 a year (approx. US$58). In other words, about six times the typical price of a cheap .com registry. A nice earner for Cable & Wireless, no doubt. But it smells worse than the drains.
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Joe Nacchio, formerly of Qwest, famously compared Telecoms to an even less savory industry when he said "Long Distance is still the most profitable business in America, next to importing illegal cocaine" (that was clearly back when).
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