woody7
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Re: Point Has Merit
I don't see why there can't be a map of availability for the consumer.....and sometimes the private sector needs a prod from the government and in this day and age, that is what a lot of home buyers use in their criteria for buying a new home.. I believe the cablecos are reluctant in a large part in that they don't want their availability to be shown for a lot of reasons. It's that they don't want to spend the money in some areas unless they are threatened by some form of competition. Name some areas where there are more than one cable company that offers competing service, or by that matter a phone company..I live in a city where the phone is divided between verizon, and ATT, the ONLY cable company is RR.
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pnh102
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| said by woody7  :I don't see why there can't be a map of availability for the consumer... That isn't a good argument for forcing ISPs to make them available. As I've stated before, consumers can already find out if a given address is serviceable.
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woody7
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| I think that it is valid,as consumers find on some sites they have to sift through piles of crap to get the answer they need, and it is ambiguous at best. I bet if some private party did just that, the uproar from the cablecos and even telcos would be deafening. The only conceivable reason that they don't want this info easily available is for the reasons that others have stated.It wouldn't paint them in a good light. Peace
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pnh102
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| said by woody7 :The only conceivable reason that they don't want this info easily available is for the reasons that others have stated. But if the information was never meant to be available why would ISPs publish websites where you can perform address lookups for various services offered?
We could look at this from the phone angle as well... let's say I am moving. I could call whatever cable company services the area to which I plan to move and ask "Do you offer High Speed Internet at my address?" If the cable companies were keeping deployment information a secret, then they would tell me that they could not help me. Of course, that scenario is ludicrous, and it shows that the information is already available.
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Skippy25
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Hazelwood, MO
| Your lack of any concern for anything beyond the protection of providers is quite funny.
Since they have all this information available, why can't they simply provide it as public information so that others can easily access it?
You can't claim it is for "competitive" reasons as any "competitor" already knows where the other serves.
Besides, I would say it is public information for 2 reasons: 1.) They are a publicly traded company 2.) They are using public right aways. |
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