When evolution accelerates size becomes a disadvantage.

It's true in nature, and it's true in technology as well.

The Bells (and Comcast) are the big bottlenecks in our technology universe. With Moore's Law sweeping through the telecomm landscape they are competitive liabilities in our economic ecosystem.

There is no malice in saying this. The Bells can't help being pointy-headed bosses. They are bureaucrats. Their loyalty is to the inside of their system, not to the customer. In a stable environment the ability to retain such people is a boon. In an unstable one it's disaster.

More proof comes today from Techdirt. It's a so-called BellSouthWiMax trial. But it isn't WiMax. It isn't new technology. It's an excuse to keep charging $110/month for DSL ($60 for the phone line) when the phone component is (with VOIP) unnecessary.

Instead of giving Americans more speed, BellSouth is spending your money looking at extending its monopoly with wireless.

We've spent the last four years eliminating any competitive threat from these increasingly-unregulated monopolies and, in response, we're paying more for less bandwidth than people elsewhere in the world.

By serving the dinosaurs, we've made our whole economy vulnerable.

It's past time for the Bells to die.