tristansbs
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join:2003-09-13
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs: | Hrm Could this be the final blow for cable companies in areas that are served by FIOS? I sure hope so. | |
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | Re: Hrm Nope, they will just turn up the bandwidth (Docsis 3.0). Its called COMPETITION!!! Now the cable companies actually have something to fight for, of course only in the areas that FIOS is being deployed. We need a state or federal broadband PLAN. | |
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join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs: | Re: Hrm Watch those words around here or they will call you a communist and try and rip the cable off your home.
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA
| Re: Hrm I am going to amaze you MORE, I AM A REPULICAN. But I am also an IT man and know the climate of broadband in this country. I know that the current scheme of less than five companies competing against each other. Is NOT going to cut it. We need to drive competition and one of the ways to do that is REFORM. | |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL | Re: Hrm A Republican in California is a Moderate Democrat, and also believes in closed bathhouses for the Log Cabin Republicans (wealthy people who want to protect their money so they can afford their lover but not divorce). | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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| Re: Hrm That sounds like something I would hear on Leykis 101.
I do agree that a Republican (I'm a moderate myself), asking for a federal broadband plan is not a true republican.
Competition is a good thing, and a certain amount of government regulation would be good to kick start everything, however, the FUSF/USF, etc. should have been funding this, not the telco's slush fund. | |
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join:2006-08-26
Pittsburgh, PA | Since when has Government intervention and regulation ever driven competition? The fastest way to kill broadband development and deployment is to let some corrupt government bureaucrats get their shit-hooks on it. | |
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RideRed
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USA | Re: Hrm Ownership caps promote competition as does refusing to approve mergers (as rare as it may be). | |
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LilYoda
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join:2004-09-02
Mountains
| said by UncleDirtNap  :Since when has Government intervention and regulation ever driven competition? Has worked in many EU countries... Probably elsewhere as well..
Incumbents have been forced to share the network they inherited. But this was done already in the US with CLECS and ILECS, afaik.
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RideRed
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USA | Pigs will fly before we see DOCSIS 3. | |
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Loker
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Fargo, ND
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| Re: Hrm said by RideRed :Pigs will fly before we see DOCSIS 3. Well I hope you are better at hunting birds than Cheney, because thats the only way you are getting your bacon.
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RideRed
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| Re: Hrm said by Loker :said by RideRed :Pigs will fly before we see DOCSIS 3. Well I hope you are better at hunting birds than Cheney, because thats the only way you are getting your bacon. I have little to worry about. The pigs will be on the ground for long into the future. People will talk about flying pigs, but we won't ever see one.
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davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
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| said by RideRed :Pigs will fly before we see DOCSIS 3. Pardon me?!? Pigs can fly now. It's called propulsion. Simply a matter of the correct placement of the right quantity of dynamite, solid rocket fuel or similar material.
And oddly enough, dynamite is roughly what would be required to get the existing cable and phone companies off their butts and really interested in "eating their own children" by deploying next generation services that could potentially eliminate their current cushy revenue streams.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by tristansbs :Could this be the final blow for cable companies in areas that are served by FIOS? I sure hope so. Yeah how many areas is that? Not many. Color me excited when FIOS gets near me. Right now I don't think there is any FIOS within 600 miles of me. | |
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
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| Re: Hrm That is because you are in an area currently served by BellSouth (which is being bought by the not-so-new AT&T). I live in a VZ-serviced area (Maryland, to be specific) and have FIOS available *right now*. While VZ services a lot of the US, it does not cover the *entire* US. The majority of folks in DSLR won't be happy until FIOS/FTTP is available nationwide. *That* won't happen unless VZ is premitted to buy *all* the RBOCs (that won't happen) or they are allowed to compete heads-up with each other for basic phone service (that won't happen, either). | |
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MadMANN
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join:2005-08-19
·Comcast
| said by tristansbs :Could this be the final blow for cable companies in areas that are served by FIOS? Sorry, but no. | |
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TechieZero
Tools Are Using Me
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join:2002-01-25
Wesley Chapel, FL
1 edit | I don't want cable to go away! I want them to suffer forever so that they continue driving down prices!  | |
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