FCC Says Cable Companies Have Grown Too Big > CC & TW: Quick buy all the cable companies while you can!

CC & TW: Quick buy all the cable companies while you can!

some magical pre-intuition tells me that this will end up causing the cable co's to split into the "RBOC"'s, or atleast their 21st-century cable equivalents. Remember the carterphone decision in 1984?
most likely, comcast may be split and some parts merged with split divisions of TW and adelphia. The same goes for the rest of the smaller cabloco's.

reply to cypherstream
AT&T isn't a cable company. You got a point?

Apparently another individual that knows NOTHING about technology; there should be NO distinction between cable and telco, the definitions are antiquated and no longer apply.

Not to split hairs here, but there shouldn't be a distinction between cable and telco company regulations of similar service types. There should be distinctions in the services, because each should have it's own service metrics. For example, dial-tone services should have an up-time or availability rate that is much higher than CATV services, etc. They would match across service types from one company to another, but there is a difference in the necessity of the various services.

I agree with you that each industry should be regulated the same, but that isn't likely to happen given the private/public backgrounds of each industry's beginning. CLECs are a direct result of the premise that the telco network is at least partially a public asset. As far as I know, except in the cases of a CATV municipal Co-Op or something, CATV never enjoyed monopoly status granted by the government or government money for an infrastructure build out. The legacy of this is "provider of last resort" build-out requirements for all residents in an RBOC's territory, and the unbundling of the network for CLECs to provide service w/o providing their own facilities. I imagine that CLECs will disappear altogether before you ever see an unbundled cable network.