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Re: Canadian laws... I always thought forced resellers wasn't a great idea, because thats got to give bell or telus or rogers or shaw less incentive to improve their infrastructure (ie their lines). Every house only has phone lines/cable going into it, so everyone else has to rent those lines.
If you're cutting out the owners ability to profit from those lines, aren't you decreasing the incentive to improve them?
Then again if there's no resellers, do the telco's/cableco's even see themselves as competition. I've always been skeptical of resellers, not sure if its a good or bad thing. Can't really blame bell for not wanting to share their lines they paid for? |
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 sbrookPremium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
Ottawa
kudos:4
·TekSavvy Cable
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| Actually it's not a bad deal for the telco because they no longer have to provide support, email, transit bandwidth. They get a fixed amount in per month and the cost is pretty much fixed, unlike their normal customers.
The telcos and cable mso's do see each other as competition, but at the same time they play the "If they can do it, so can we game."
When Rogers threatened byte caps a few years back, Bell jumped on and implemented them. They lost TONS of customers to Rogers who decided to delay and have only just formally introduced caps. Bell had egg all over their face.
Now they both have caps together ... both implemented about the same time, prices go up. It's almost looking like collusion. |
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 RaptorNot a Dumptruck
join:2001-10-21
London, ON | said by sbrook:Now they both have caps together ... both implemented about the same time, prices go up. It's almost looking like collusion. I always find it amusing (in a hateful kind of way) how instead of price cuts and then the competition matching, we get price increases and then the competition following suit. What's up with that?.... |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | In a duopoly where you don't have to worry about new competitors, and the number of customers isn't increasing quickly, you can make more money playing leader/follower than actually competing. |
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