RJ44
join:2001-10-19
Nashville, TN | reply to Karl Bode
Re: Can Someone Explain... said by Karl Bode: said by Resident telecom investor talking point mouthpiece :
All that happened was that it will be more difficult and time consuming and expensive for telcos to rollout TV competition to the cable companies.
Yes, that's why Verizon themselves admit that a national franchise law is unnecessary and the existing system doesn't slow them down at all. » telephonyonline.com/home/news/ve···_092706/ quote:
Franchising is not holding us back,” said Virginia Ruesterholz, president of Verizon Telecom. “I really don’t see that as a necessity, to have nationwide relief on that.”
Odd. From later in the same article:
"Though Verizon says it doesn’t need federal franchises, most observers agree they would accelerate and perhaps reduce the cost of Verizon’s video rollout. When Verizon reported having achieved 10% penetration of its video markets after six months in the second quarter, research analysis firm Ovum-RHK suggested those numbers could go much higher if federal franchising becomes a reality" |
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2 edits | Observer's suggested? Which observers? Investors like TCH? Free-market deregulatory think tanks?
And Ovum's guessing, probably based on data from the above minded individuals. Doubt they asked the Consumer's Union....or found objective data not spun by people eager to see local voters eliminated from the profit mechanism... |
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RJ44
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Nashville, TN | said by Karl Bode:Observer's suggested? Which observers? Investors like TCH? Free-market deregulatory think tanks? I really don't have a clue, I was just quoting the same source that you were. |
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