 marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
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Re: 65 channels? said by BK3:65 Public access channels does seem to be a bit extreme. Totally standard actually.
I read a lot of franchise agreements while I was helping out on a negotiation, and nearly all of them require the cable company to set aside 10% of their digital spectrum for government and education (not public access as Verizon is claiming). The rule on this spectrum is that if the government is not using it, then the franchisee can use it as they wish. This spectrum has a lot of uses that the public never sees (the most common one being remote site transmission bandwidth and closed circuit classrooms). This is on top of the base analog channels requirement (normally 4-7 analog channels) which we commonly think of as public access, education, and government channels.
When you add it up as digital channel bandwidth, 65 really is pretty small.
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