| reply to UncleDirtNap
Re: Cable customers to dumb to see the forest for the trees "Chairman Martin has been one of the few strong voices for "cable" tv consumers and should be lauded for his efforts."
No, actually he shouldn't be.
How exactly does capping cable growth help subscribers?
The largest cable companies are also the cable companies that offer the best line-up of services and have the money to upgrade, expand, and develop new services. . .benefiting cable customers and consumers as a whole. . .competition in the DSL and phone markets has had an affect on how telcos are doing business. Average phone rates have dropped and telcos have pressure on them to upgrade and offer better services. They wouldn't have, if Comcast and Time Warner had not been able to expand their service offerings.
We wouldn't have cable internet or cable voip without Comcast, Time Warner, and Cox leading the way. They were able to build the networks to offer these services because of their large TV business.
Companies have to be able to make money to provide better service, upgrades, and new services. Limiting growth of their video business is going to limit future innovation. |
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| "We wouldn't have cable internet or cable voip without Comcast, Time Warner, and Cox leading the way. They were able to build the networks to offer these services because of their large TV business."
They were only able to do any of this because of the unfair advantages they were granted by the FCC that allowed them be monopolies in a given area, take ownership stakes in content producing companies who they could then cut unethical deals with to provide content nobody wanted by way of forced bundling.
The caps only partially make up for the years of illegitimate growth they attained by holding entire populations hostage who had one option only to get these services and were forced to pay exorbitant rates for crap programming and inferior products.
The limits can easily be rescinded once true competition has been introduced, forced bundling is ended, exclusive franchise agreements are outlawed and the cable companies are required to compete fairly for customers.
As a decades long victim of the unethical business practices of Comcast and Time Warner I want nothing more than to see them knee-capped as badly as possible to give everyone and anyone who can a chance to compete. I wouldn't even shed a tear if both companies eventually went out of business as a result. |
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| said by UncleDirtNap:The limits can easily be rescinded once true competition has been introduced, forced bundling is ended, exclusive franchise agreements are outlawed and the cable companies are required to compete fairly for customers. You might to check on the facts... "Exclusive franchise agreements" are illegal. |
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| "Exclusive franchise agreements" are illegal. Ya right Duval county Fl has given comcast an exclusive agreement. If you want cable you have to have comcast. Does this effect service we have almost a million customers who have been out of service for two days. Comcast's response is to automate a message saying they know the service is down and are working on it. If you try another route for information you are placed on terminal hold. Will comcast make any adjustment on their bill not in a million years. After all they need that money. |
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