| local franchise when the Texas approved a statewide franchise agreement both charter and time warner begin plans to drop their rates and to upgrading their facilities. the real killer to competition (between CATV and ILEC) is the ILEC's having to negotiate deals with thousands of cities, which, let's face it, is 90 percent politics and 10 percent substance. let requirements for local and public service programming be negotiated at the state level.
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | I'd settle for the county or regional level considering I live in a county with over 100 municipalities and FIOS lines are already in my neighborhood. |
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Doug45
join:2002-08-27
Wheaton, IL
kudos:1 | ATT just sent out notices to "surplus" people today from the SBC purchase of ATT. Now we have to go through another round of bloodletting... |
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