Neyland
join:2003-02-04
USA
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Re: No Wonder We're Not Tops
said by matrix3D  :I think even lines that companies like Comcast put down more than 20 years ago should be opened up to competition. After all, such cable companies have OBVIOUSLY made back their cost to build out the lines by now anyway. So, if we're finally going to do away with our antiquated, state-granted cable monopolies, then I say all the cable lines in the country should be opened up to every single cable provider. Right now, Comcast is my only choice where I live. You want some real competition? Let's see Comcast continously raise their rates when I have a choice of Time Warner, Optimum Online or anybody else. And again, I have no problem with that as long as those lines were funded in some way by the local/state/or federal governement. If they weren't then they shouldn't be required to open them up. |
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matrix3D
join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT
| reply to Neyland
I think even lines that companies like Comcast put down more than 20 years ago should be opened up to competition. After all, such cable companies have OBVIOUSLY made back their cost to build out the lines by now anyway. So, if we're finally going to do away with our antiquated, state-granted cable monopolies, then I say all the cable lines in the country should be opened up to every single cable provider. Right now, Comcast is my only choice where I live. You want some real competition? Let's see Comcast continously raise their rates when I have a choice of Time Warner, Optimum Online or anybody else. |
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Neyland
join:2003-02-04
USA
1 edit | reply to skrupowies
said by skrupowies :I agree, a level playing field for all parties. Kind of like the way the Telcos were forced to open up their lines to competition but the cable companies weren't. I have no problem opening up cable pipes wherever that pipe was paid for by government funds either directly or indirectly by tax breaks.
Ok, with this crowd 'pipe' may not be the best word.. but /shrug have fun with it... |
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skrupowies
join:2002-08-22
Wallingford, CT
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
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said by Rob :True, but either the government removes cable licenses all together, or they force tv providers all alike to obtain it. It's no secret that the government has been favoring the telcos for many years, and now that they aren't, the telcos can't handle it.
I agree, a level playing field for all parties. Kind of like the way the Telcos were forced to open up their lines to competition but the cable companies weren't.  Cable argued that their service was different from the Telcos so they shouldn't have to follow the same rules. And that's true. It is different - technically. But to an end user it's exactly the same, they pick up a handset and hear a buzz. And this, by the way, is how they favored the Telcos for many years -- force the Telcos to open up their lines for POTS and DSL while the cable companies sat back and thumbed their noses at the state and the Telcos while raising prices whenever they felt like it.
To an end user Uverse is the same, they turn on their TV and see a picture. But technically it's a VERY different process from cable TV. So the argument that works for cable should also work for Telco. |
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