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JoeyDee
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join:2004-07-23
Las Vegas, NV
 ·Cox HSI
| The concept is wrong !
Giving certain entities (companies or even individuals) exclusive rights to sell a community natural gas, electricity or even telephone service made tremendous sense 100 years ago. Maybe 30 or 40 years ago the cable franchises made sense. Build out the utility to the benefit of both the community and have a reasonable chance to recover your expenses and then make a profit. Some communities, here by me the Alameda Electric Company for example, elected to build their own utilities with great success.
To my point: This model is now bullshit. Technology is changing and improving so quickly that if a city's residents and business wish to install a forward thinking network there should be no impediments. I truly hate to say this as I am a serious "private sector" conservative but, US companies thinking about quarterly profits won't invest in ventures that makes profits over decades. If residents want really cool 'net access and access to the IPTV and VOIP stuff that's coming sometime before they're dead they probably have to do it themselves. If BigTelco/BigCable want to stem this tide all they have to do is provide the goods, huh?
Maybe the municipal networks really are the answer. More and more I think they are.
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Daarken
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join:2005-01-12
Cajun Countr
·Cox HSI
·Suddenlink
| Considering I grew up in Lafayette, LA and I was a customer of Bellsouth and am a customer of Cox, I think that this fiber project is going to be a welcome addition to that market. After all the crap and threats that Bellsouth pulled, and all the rate increases done by Cox and Bellsouth this is an going to help reduce the cost of these OVERPRICED services. The advertised quality of product services are misleading. On top of it, the actual costs and hidden fees of their service is way overpriced for the amount of service they offer. I pay $100 a month for their internet and expanded cable, considering I only watch about 5 channels regularly and the rest is either QVC or religious program or sports.
"Officials claim LUS can offer phone, cable and Internet for about $85 a month, lower than rates charged by existing providers such as Cox Communications and BellSouth, both of which fought the LUS project in the legal system and in the court of public opinion."
Yeah now that is Triple Play in my book.
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