On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Juan Garofalo wrote:

>        The companiy is forced to pay the government the price of a
> 'license'. And then the company charges its customers to recoup that
> expense. So, the money that the government collects ***comes from the
> citizens***

Grin. It's actually even worse than that. The frequencies are sold to 
the highest bidder in an auction, bidder who does not know how much they 
are worth. It's a future, and he gambles on the value. Since the highest 
bidder wins, it is guaranteed that he has evaluated them *too high* when 
compared to the others. And *this* is the money they need to recover 
from service prices, and make some profit (taxed too, of course). This 
is a proven recipe to ensure that effectively maximum prices and maximum 
taxes will be paid on the set or 'services'.

Peter
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