Comcast Mocks AT&T For Lawn Cabinets While Deploying Their Own > Glad I don't have those boxes

reply to flyingjoey

Re: Glad I don't have those boxes

reply to NormanS
Yes, it's what we're stuck with. But it sure raises questions as to why providers of "luxury" services were granted access to the public right-of-way, since they don't provide anything that can be considered to be for "the good of the public", by their own admission.

reply to Jwobot
not sure why they are building on property. ATT put their uverse boxes along power lines in our community. They're ugly but not obtrusive.

reply to NormanS
Surely you're aware that cable tv has been de-regulated, aren't you? There aren't very many aspects of cable tv service a franchise authority has authority over.

• They can bargain for PEGs when awarding a franchise (and they'll get sued if they dare ask for any).
• They have final approval for prices set by the cable company for limited basic service (the package that includes over-the-air channels and PEGs), equipment installation charges, and equipment rental fees in areas with no effective competition.
• They can enforce federal regulations for customer service (which are so weak they're at best, a joke).

Add it all up and it amounts to practically nothing but PEGs and a lawsuit.

And yes, the service known as "internet" (an entertainment service whereby the TOS prevents you from actually connecting to the internet) is totally exempt from regulation.

Cities don't have the authority to tell Comcast (or any other cable company) to get out of dodge.

reply to gateguy
Ya know there just tring to do there job so why give them a hard time?? Quit being a Ass and let them get to the easement. Im almost sure if they wanted to be Asses as well you would lose and there would be nothing you could do to keep them from crossing your back yard to get to the Easement. If they need to get heavy machinery to the easment its gonna mess up ya yard regardless of that retaining wall.

I am sure that, assuming an easement exists, your local constabulary will trump your shotgun.
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Norman
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reply to JTRockville

Utilities on a pole.

reply to gateguy
I'm sure the utility employee, his manager, their securities officer, and the Sheriff's Deputies they'll bring will trump your shotgun due to the easement rights.

reply to NormanS
Reading comprehension needed.

At no point did I say I would deny them access to the easement.

I would deny them access to the easement across private property. They still have the ability to get to the easement (or did you just miss that when you skimmed over my post)

reply to bogey780
Reading comprehension needed part 2.

At no point did I say I would deny them access to the easement.

I would deny them access to the easement across private property. They still have the ability to get to the easement (or did you just miss that when you skimmed over my post)

reply to gateguy
I didn't skim over your post. I think you just don't understand easement, and law.
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Norman
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reply to NormanS

reply to moonpuppy
Exactly, at least FiOS uses PON tech that doesn't need huge boxes on the street/poles. Boxes there are, but only IF you want service.

reply to NormanS
Yes, the poles themselves aren't public property. Here in Rockville, the electric company owns about half of them, and Verizon owns the other half.

No matter who owns the pole, the property the pole sits on is, for the most part, public property.

Sure, there are a few here-or-there that sit on private property, but the right to use the property to serve the public good (the easement) is granted by the franchise authority, not the property owner.

If the pole is owned by the electric company, or Verizon, access to the pole is governed, largely, by the state PUC.

The local franchise authority is only involved with cable infrastructure.

In the S.F. Bay Area, between roughly 1955 and 1975, new subdivisions were built with the utility poles along the back lot lines of the property. Considering that covers a significant part of a building boom where poles were set (subsequent to 1975, buried utilities are the rule), I'd guess that as many as half the poles around here sit on private property.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum