fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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Re: What's the big deal? Because "WHAT" shows they don't understand their own business? Are you ever going to bring something tangible to the conversation? Or are you going to continue with barrages of opinion and emotion?
What you're saying is that YOU don't like the way they offer the service.. they CLEARLY know their own business or they wouldn't 1) be the leader in the industry.. 2) the largest in the industry 3) be still operating outside of bankruptcy... shall I go on?
I'm glad you understand you shouldn't discuss it with me either. There IS competition.. what is DirecTV? What is Satellite? What is the Over the air service? What is FiOS in some markets, Uverse in some markets.. over builders in some markets. EVERYONE has 'access' to Dish services.. should they chose to take it is usually up to them.
If you are not going to recognize satellite as competition, then you need to go put your head back in the sand.
I refuse to even argue any points with people who base their entire notion on emotion and what THEY have defined things to be from reality. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Because "what"? If they're unable to seperate their maintenance costs from their content costs then they need regulation more than ever.
Why? It's so easy to arm chair, but explain your point. Because it shows they don't understand their own business, and aren't fit to operate it. So IT would be their inability to understand the cost inputs that drive their operations
Maybe a reading comprehension class would keep your blood preasure down.
Satelite will be competition when their service offering is comparable. They can't offer data, they can't offer VOD, and they require me to screw a dish into the side of my house.
Again, I don't think there SHOULD be competition in the wireline business. But the currently regulated wireline business needs to be regulated properly.
Please spare me your emotional preaching, your tireless paragraphs of "holier than thou" are going to end up driving our cable rates up, more. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3
1 edit | hahaha... riiight.
You still haven't stated anything factual.. still opinions. So I will conclude you don't know what you're talking about. Simply saying "they don't know how to separate their operation cost from... " (as you said) doesn't make it true. How do you know they don't or aren't separating the costs? If you don't think they don't know the cost of doing business, then you are more naive than I thought.
Let me also clue you into something else. You DO realize that there are specific rules and regulations that state exactly how a cable bill must be itemized on the bill, right?
Like I said, you don't really know what goes on in cable, much less business, if you're supporting that statement. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Again.. reading comprehension is your friend.
It is clearly written as IF THEY'RE UNABLE TO SEPARATE.... etc. (That's a pretty desparate stretch there)
It has nothing to do with how they itemize their billing. Now you're just reaching for anything to save the argument you've lost.
Of course, I know nothing because I disagree with you, I'm probably a terrorist too. I should be wire tapped, arrested w/o a warrant, and sent down to Gitmo. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | No.. you're just being an idiot now.
"Of course, I know nothing because I disagree with you, I'm probably a terrorist too. I should be wire tapped, arrested w/o a warrant, and sent down to Gitmo."
Could you spare me please...
As to your post... I asked a simple question and you've given NO REAL ANSWER.. do you know what that means? You made a statement "IF THEY'RE UNABLE TO SEPARATE" that implies that they need to.. which I already said they do. ANY business has to know their costs of providing a service or product against the product itself... but like you said... reading comprehension is YOUR friend.. it's already mine.
Now.. go bother someone else. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | So your question is how my original statement relates to your original? Didn't realize the misunderstanding went back that far.
This was to counter your original assertion The fact is that a operators won't survive is every customer picked the handful of channels they wanted to watch. It cost 'MONEY' to run a metro wide network. . Thus they would have separate fees, as I explained, between network costs and channel costs, and If they're unable to seperate their maintenance costs from their content costs then they need regulation more than ever. I can only assume this answers the question you haven't asked... |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | "Thus they would have separate fees, as I explained, between network costs and channel costs,"
To which I stated that they are legally required to bill in a specific way on the statements and can't sell their service that way.. they can't itemize out the network charge from the plant charge. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Ok, and we're discussing how to change the regulation, no? |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | not in this branch of the thread... |
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