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Camelot One
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Re: now's a great time to use that rural penetration data
I disagree. I used Verizon (and then a VZ line reseller) in Florida, and I was much happier than I am now that I'm stuck with AT&T.
That said.....damn, did the FCC Chairman get raped by a cable company employee when he was a kid? Why are they b*tch slapping the cable industry, while caving to telcos at every turn? I'm all for competition, but if you are going to overly-regulate one side, do the same to the other.
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batterup
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| said by Camelot One  :I disagree. I used Verizon (and then a VZ line reseller) in Florida, and I was much happier than I am now that I'm stuck with AT&T. That said.....damn, did the FCC Chairman get raped by a cable company employee when he was a kid? Why are they b*tch slapping the cable industry, while caving to telcos at every turn? I'm all for competition, but if you are going to overly-regulate one side, do the same to the other. TPC is the provider of last resort and must provide service to anyone at a government set price. Isn't that a quaint idea? | |
Ulmo
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said by Camelot One :That said.....damn, did the FCC Chairman get raped by a cable company employee when he was a kid? Why are they b*tch slapping the cable industry, while caving to telcos at every turn? I'm all for competition, but if you are going to overly-regulate one side, do the same to the other. I noticed that as well. Verizon FiOS has been getting some latitude for implementing fiber *and* for not trying to short-circuit the government process *as much as* AT&T (Verizon used to be worse than they are now, but they took a congenial attitude during this rollout, which no doubt was a wise decision). However, Comcast also did a pretty decent fiber rollout recently. FCC has allowed cable companies to go all digital, which I keep advocating and advocating that they (cables) *not* buy any more sub-XVID quality boxes, but other than that I noticed they (cables & FCC) are not on best terms.
I think part of the game being played here is that AT&T charges less for their crap than Comcast does for their comparatively better stuff, so FCC is giving AT&T extra latitude. I think they need to start leveling and equalizing the playing field, though, making rules that are more specific for what they intend rather than rules that are more technical in nature that are only supposed to have certain side effects (made difficult by a variety of different delivery methods). However, that would take accountings: how much gov't and monopoly customer investment went into each network, etc.. If we looked at everything, there'd be some interesting resultant data for who should be doing what.
It seems to me there are a lot of factors, not just garbage politics, but us armchair readers here can really see a lot of shots missing TPC and being shot at the cables.
I'm not quick to assume FCC's shots are entirely wrong, though -- far from it. | |
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Camelot One on 2007-11-10 at 19:49:37 said:
That said.....damn, did the FCC Chairman get raped by a cable company employee when he was a kid? Why are they b*tch slapping the cable industry, while caving to telcos at every turn? I'm all for competition, but if you are going to overly-regulate one side, do the same to the other. Get a clue. You obviously have no idea how thoroughly regulated telcos are.
The FCC IS doing, "the same to the other."
It is a shame that the FCC is bringing more regulation to cable companies instead of lessening regulation on telco, but the effect is the same. They're leveling the field. You really ought to consider CLEC (open/UNE telco networks vs cable's closed networks) and provider of last resort (telco must build, cable not so) requirements. Those regulations are very costly in terms of both capital (build out) and market share (competition from CLECs).
Since cable and telco are increasingly competitive with each other it is about time that the regulations are equally beneficial or burdensome. Please note that the recent TV franchise rules enacted have largely been tailored to be of benefit to both CATV and Telco; CATV primarily opposed them (sometimes they didn't) due to the fact that CATV already enjoyed a competitive advantage w/ local franchise agreements already in place. | |
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