kba4
join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| now's a great time to use that rural penetration data
as flawed as it is, now is a great time to utilize that broadband-penetration data that the FCC has been gathering all these years with the 'help' of the providers! it's gonna come back and bite those ISP's and Video providers in the ass now, cause they'll have to make a decision on how they want to spin the data: do they want to pretend that an entire zip code has access now based on one address or be real and say 'wait maybe our reports are wrong'... either way they're sure to back themselves into a corner now 
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illegal wars, prisoners with no trials, and state controlled media. welcome to the land of the free! |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | what about the Deathstar?
CABLE COMPANIES ARE TO BIG wait what?
*cough* AT&T *cough* |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
·Optimum Online
| said by elios  :CABLE COMPANIES ARE TO BIG wait what? *cough* AT&T *cough* Not big enough to lobby like T and VZ.
When the FCC gets balls, they sure are pretty selective about what outrages them, aren't they?
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with every mistake we must surely be learning |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | im meh about Verizon FiOS is win but since im in AT&T land im kinda pissed about the lack of bandwidth here >.> Uverse is a joke and AT&T is bigger then most of the cable co.s put togeather |
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ITALIAN926
join:2003-08-16
Stratford, CT | sigh
Regulate cable ? You can start by regulating voIP to get dialtones on even playing ground.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...... |
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DarthVader
@rr.com
| reply to sporkme
Re: what about the Deathstar?
A bit harsh? Aren't we? He's a typical government employed wimp! We live in the age of corruption and it can be seen in the highest layers of government and Law enforcement. Corruption is to be expected!
Just the other day a policeman pulled my wallet out of my hand during a traffic stop and lifted my cash(60 Bucks)!
....But I was doing 80 in a 50 and he let me off so I got off cheap!......So I keep my mouth shut! |
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joeblob
@arlaw.com
| Bout time...
Bows wholeheartedly to FCC. Thank you, Thank you...
It sucks that comcast holds a monopoly, yet they refuse to give thier customers the appropriate service to back it up.
I think, if you got a monopoly, you better have the service to back it up. It's marketing 101. If you got a hold on the market. You keep it by having the best products and customer relations in the industry. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | ROFL
Cable bills do not go down. they just don't. |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | reply to joeblob
Re: Bout time...
and we all KNOW that this same thing "fixed" MaBell RIGHT? |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | reply to elios
Re: what about the Deathstar?
I don't suppose the "rules are rules" advocates will step in here to defend the FCC now. |
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elister
join:2006-07-17
Seattle, WA
| Long Term Lease Agreements.
If cable companies were able to make long term leases for channels (from the programmers themselves), then you wouldn't see rate increases for years. Prices wouldn't go down unless you forced the programmers to sell at lower rates, which will happen ... round-a-bout ... NEVER! |
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dadarkside
Premium
join:2006-05-20
The Moon | A year and a half too late
6 million Adelphia customers and 10,000 employees got screwed, you douchebag! |
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Packeteers
Premium
join:2005-06-18
Forest Hills, NY | yeah, you can throw RCN on that pile
of competitors TW stomped due to the
FCC's lack of anti monopoly policies. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
| reply to kba4
Re: now's a great time to use that rural penetration data
I want a choice for cable tv operator. I dont want to pay for 20 spanish channels so thier "partners" can advertise/market the illegal aliens.
I dont want 20 different sports channels.
I dont want reality, soap opera, or cooking channels.
Ole` Ala Carte |
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whocares
Premium
join:2003-07-26
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| Cable Companies Have Grown Too Big
it not a question of cable companies getting to big,
its the attitude of those in charge of the cable companies think,getting as much $$$ out the consumer/CUSTOMER as they can get & returning as little service as they can get away with |
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wahoospa
join:2006-03-23
Charleston, SC
| Competition will not lower rates.
In my area we had Comcast for years. Then someone got the bright idea to let Knology in so the cable rates would be in competition and therefore go lower. Didn't work. All cable competition does is allow another company to enjoy part of the pie. Rates for both have gone only one way and that is up. 5 different cable companies could be serving one area and all will still have the same rates within a dollar of each other. Having competition isn't always as good an idea as it seems, you only get choices with whom you want to buy from. |
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DotMac4
Shill H8r
Premium
join:2007-10-26
Huntington Beach, CA
| That is certainly the case here. Speeds have increased to 15Mb in my area from Time Warner vs FiOS, but Verizon has already taken a 12% increase on HSI rates and a similar increase with their video services.
And even when speeds increase, there isn't really a benefit as the providers just engage in traffic control measures like Comcast's nastygrams, cancellations and traffic shaping, Cox's monthly caps and Time Warner's traffic shaping. |
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Dagda1175
join:2001-06-17
Goleta, CA
·Cox HSI
| better tech, not regulation
Cable beats satellite crap because the technology is better. I dont want to have to fix my own damn dish after a major storm for a service that actually provides less than cable. satellite: just another sector looking for government protection when it cant compete by making itself better.  |
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backness
join:2005-07-08
K2P OW2 | reply to sporkme
Re: what about the Deathstar?
That about sums it up...
I guess it will be Verison or AT&T after the FCC |
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whiteyonenh
join:2004-08-09
Keene, NH
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to joeblob
Re: Bout time...
said by joeblob :
I think, if you got a monopoly, you better have the service to back it up. It's marketing 101. If you got a hold on the market. You keep it by having the best products and customer relations in the industry.
I'm sitting here in amazement, as it seems that statement makes no sense. If a company has a monopoly, where do people turn if their service is crap. Don't say sattelite or dialup, for many having broadband is a must, and many don't have access to dsl either.
If a company has a monopoly on a certain thing, whats to say that they have to be good at it?
I do agree that companies need to be held accountable, but the current FCC thats pro-telco is a bunch of crap. There is nothing more that I would like to see as forcing the telcos to return the money that they have been leeching off the USF without increasing any buildout of new services, while cherry-picking the more lucrative markets.
Of course, I am also of the mindset that all government officials are bought, to the point that government isn't for the people anymore, it's all a government/corporate bureaucracy. |
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