LilYoda
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join:2004-09-02
Mountains
| reply to UncleDirtNap
Re: Hrm
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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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
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| reply to BF69
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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RideRed
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join:2005-06-18
USA | reply to UncleDirtNap
Ownership caps promote competition as does refusing to approve mergers (as rare as it may be). |
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UncleDirtNap
join:2006-08-26
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to JamesPC
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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davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
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| reply to RideRed
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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RideRed
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| reply to Loker
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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phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL
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| reply to tristansbs
said by tristansbs :Could this be the final blow for cable companies in areas that are served by FIOS? I sure hope so. Keep wishing. This will take many years to start affecting the major cable companies anyway. I doubt it will impact them the way you're hoping. Keep in mind that once they can justify charging you more (ie. cable can't do it, nobody else can beat us, etc...) they will likely raise rates. 
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TechieZero
Tools Are Using Me
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join:2002-01-25
Wesley Chapel, FL
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Final Blow?
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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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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join:2005-06-18
USA | reply to JamesPC
Pigs will fly before we see DOCSIS 3. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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| reply to supergirl
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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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL | reply to JamesPC
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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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA
| reply to en102
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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MadMANN
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join:2005-08-19
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| reply to tristansbs
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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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to JamesPC
I don't think you'll see too much more on the high end... how much more are people willing to pay for the highend service (+10Mbps, HD, etc.). Docsis 3.0 will require a new payout for Cable companies to deploy.
Having a state or federal broadband plan is the last thing I would expect out of someone from Orange County. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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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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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to tristansbs
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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N3OGH
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
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| reply to tristansbs
During one of my recent shifts I spied a Verizon tech working on one of those tan fiber boxes on the poles. Wanting to get a peak inside, I just had to stop. He was pretty cool, and took the time to explain a lot to me. I didn't get it when he said all future fios deployments would be GPON. I get it now.
Inside of the cabinet was neat-o. I didn't have my digital, so I couldn't take pics.
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | reply to tristansbs
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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tristansbs
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join:2003-09-13
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs: | Could this be the final blow for cable companies in areas that are served by FIOS? I sure hope so. |
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