Something about this just doesn't make sense. U.S. Companies are always trying to squeeze an extra dollar out of their customers so you'd think they would jump all over A La Carte pricing.........Unless in fact it truly would drop prices.
marigolds Gainfully employed, finally Premium,MVM join:2002-05-13 Saint Louis, MO kudos:1
Depends on which companies you mean. Cable companies are basically contracturally forbidden by the content providers from using a la carte. The content providers would get a smaller share of cable revenue under a la carte while a greater part of the revenue would go to system maintainence. So, the content providers would lose money, the cable companies cannot do anything, and price would not change much. -- ISCABBS - the oldest and largest BBS on the Internet telnet://bbs.iscabbs.com Professional Geographer Geographic Information Science researcher
I see problems with that model. The content providers need to Cable operators to delivery their product. You'd think the CableCos would have the upper-hand but judging from what you said, they give the content providers all the power. I would have thought that the CableCos would try to snatch that power from the content providers when they sign their next contract because they need eachother other equally.
