GPSrob
join:2007-05-21
1 edit | Re: now's a great time to use that rural penetration data 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. |
