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To: TChris
No, I was just pointing out the flaw in your statement. In this type of business where technology changes at a rapid pace a company will not invest in infrastructure if it is marginally profitable, profitable, very profitable or even wildly profitable, only when it is excessively profitable are they willing to take such risks.

But in a joint venture with the state, where the business uses the state's towers and frequencies, the risks become nominal and what was once a less than profitable sector of consumers becomes a viable market.

35 posted on 05/02/2007 12:16:24 PM PDT by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations. So should you.)
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To: Between the Lines
In this type of business where technology changes at a rapid pace a company will not invest in infrastructure if it is marginally profitable, profitable, very profitable or even wildly profitable, only when it is excessively profitable are they willing to take such risks.

Where do you get the standing to make such assertions of what "a company" will and will not do? That's a pretty wide blanket statement about how individual business owners behave.

Also, where do you get the term "excessively profitable"? How is the profit "excessive" (i.e. too much profit)?

At what point is a profit margin "excessive"? 5%? 10%? 25%?

You're using that term as though it's a settled, well-known thing, but it's really very arbitrary.

38 posted on 05/02/2007 1:11:48 PM PDT by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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