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2 edits |  Martin doing a good thing by capping Comcast's growth ?
The question then becomes, is Martin still doing a good thing by capping Comcast's growth, even if his intentions are not particularly noble? The very easy answer is no. Let the market decide who gets bigger in the TV marketplace - cable or telco or satellite. Customers and investors are more capable of efficiently allocating scarce financial resources to the best methods of delivering TV content. Martin should keep his hands off. Regulations never accomplish anything but a distortion of the natural marketplace.
And aside from any issues about the appropriateness of a cable limit or not, the court already struck down in 2001 an attempt by the FCC to limit cable penetration.
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telcolackey
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My cell bill is higher than my TV bill. I use my TV more than my cell phone. Cell phone infrastructure is cheaper and does not have NFL like content price hikes in it. Can the government work on cell phones first if they are so worried about consumer prices?
This has less to do with consumer prices and more to do with the government wanting the same level of involvement in the day to day biz of cable as they do with telco's. They don't like that cable has been successfully getting into the telco industry without government involvement. |
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JSRoman
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| He is making some powerful enemies
Even if he manages to get this thru it will end up in court and most likely over turned. He is being way to obvious in his dealings. This has to blow up in his face at some time. How can he justify this at a time that dish,ATT and Verizon are increasing video market share?
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DotMac4
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Re: Martin doing a good thing by capping Comcast's growth ?
The market doesn't decide who gets the bigger.
They simply buy their way into other markets through M&A with the money reaped from their endless price increases.
They aren't EARNING their growth through excellent service at a fair price as companies in other industries have to do. |
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Re: He is making some powerful enemies
said by JSRoman  :Even if he manages to get this thru it will end up in court and most likely over turned. He is being way to obvious in his dealings. This has to blow up in his face at some time. How can he justify this at a time that dish,ATT and Verizon are increasing video market share? I agree. Even those who have NO SYMPATHY AT ALL for cable companies and the constant price hikes are starting to comment on the fact that Martin has got it in for the cable companies(Comcast in particular) and that he has dropped all pretense at being an objective regulator.
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telcolackey
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| What's good for the goose....
"prohibit a cable company from controlling more than 30 percent of the market."
Multiple choice
Prohibit a ________ company from controlling more than 30 percent of the market
A) Satellite TV
B) Search Engine
C) Operating System
D) Telephone
E) Game System
F) MP3 Player
G) Online Auction
H) Cellular
I) Broadband Forum
J) Fast food hamburger
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DotMac4
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Re: Wireless
There are lots of companies in direct competition in the cellular business. The same isn't true in video services. Also I don't know what TV and Cell plan you have but before canceling E* my DBS bill was 2-3X what my cellular bill was and I didn't get any premium channels (eg HBO). I also didn't get twice yearly price increases at rates 3X inflation like Comcast extorts form their customers.
Over the years my cellular bills have gone down, especially when compared to what my analog cellular service cost. Cable on the other hand has been increasing at an exponential rate while customer service have gone into the sh!tter.
And cable certainly isn't alone. The same ownership rules should apply to all companies participating in this oligopoly (including Verizon and AT&T video services). |
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Re: He is making some powerful enemies
The telco shills were saying the exact same thing a few years ago when DSL line sharing rules came down.
Squeaky wheels get the grease and right now the attention is on the endless price hikes of CATV. If Comcast stood up to the channel extortionists at ABC and kept rates in check, the FCC would be paying them no attention. |
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Re: What's good for the goose....
K) All companies who function in an oligopoly thus aren't subject to normal economic forces, lie to consumers with scare tactics and push polls, threaten to close call centers if they don't get their way, turn over private information to the government or who bribe politicians to pass laws which screw over consumers and/or kill off any potential competition like that of municipal deployment. |
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telcolackey
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DotMac4
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1 edit | Exactly.
Cable isn't the only industry forking over customers with their gov't granted money tree. You can certainly include telcos, oil companies and a few other companies with behaviors that negatively impact competition in the marketplace and consumers. And in the case of the oil companies which is certainly not on topic, their behavior has a severe and negative impact on the economy as a whole. |
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xbbdc
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what does he have to say about the FCC and Martin? something recent... not old stuff.. |
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DotMac4
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1 edit | said by Brian Roberts :
Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Sniff sniff Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
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somebodyelse
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to att&t for warrantless wiretapping? |
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openbox9
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Re: Martin doing a good thing by capping Comcast's growth ?
But yet consumers still blindly throw their money at Comcast. Until the sheeple speak with $$, Comcast will continue to grow. |
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luckylar
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Re: What's good for the goose....
said by telcolackey :"prohibit a cable company from controlling more than 30 percent of the market." Multiple choice Prohibit a ________ company from controlling more than 30 percent of the market A) Satellite TV B) Search Engine C) Operating System D) Telephone E) Game System F) MP3 Player G) Online Auction H) Cellular I) Broadband Forum J) Fast food hamburger . . . Z) All of the above There is one BIG flaw in your statement:
With just about every one of those companies/services I have a CHOICE of which one I want to be a customer of. With cable, one RARELY has a choice. |
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telcolackey
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DotMac4
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Re: Martin doing a good thing by capping Comcast's growth ?
Sometimes their only choice is take it or leave it...no competition. |
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MysticGogeta
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I don't like Comcast but this is a very one sided arguement and it seems quite obvious that Martin is getting paid by Telecos and needs to be removed.
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It is funny that even with the price hikes people still continue to buy cable TV service, at what point is it not worth it to most people? Time Warner in my area charges $55 for their standard package which has about 70 channels. I just can't justify spending that much to watch TV. |
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