TWTom
@rr.com
| reply to Rob
Re: No....
The Telco's don't abide to the same rules and taxes as the MSO's (i.e Verizon and ATT) with the FTTH TV services,MSO's shouldn't have to abide to the same rule and taxes as the Telco companies.Plan and simple.Franchise rules don't apply to the Telco with their TV services,Why should Comcast have to be tax the same for their phone services?..Come on now |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
 ·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| very true. In Ohio VZ and ATT and any NEW provider just goes to the state to get "approval" to enter into the business. a cable company that already has a contract with the cities can NOT do that. Why? cause ATT and VZ claim they don't offer Cable TV. they offer IPTV. But as Italian says If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck it must be a duck. Right? if that is so then ATT and VZ should have to go to each city before they can offer TV too? why its the same thing juts delivered different. |
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ITALIAN926
join:2003-08-16
Stratford, CT
1 edit | Verizon FiOS is NOT IPTV, dont make comments unless you know what youre talking about. Verizon goes TOWN TO TOWN getting franchises. Now youre a little more educated.
We already know why VoIP ISNT taxed according to your FCC rulebook. Thats the point of this topic and thread, it should be changed. |
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
2 edits | said by ITALIAN926  :Verizon FiOS is NOT IPTV, dont make comments unless you know what youre talking about. Verizon goes TOWN TO TOWN getting franchises. Now youre a little more educated. We already know why VoIP ISNT taxed according to your FCC rulebook. Thats the point of this topic and thread, it should be changed. Not now, but it will be according to this.
»www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/25/ve···ds-iptv/
Verizon announced that it will transition its FiOS TV service to an IPTV model over the next three years. Even though Verizon doesn't have plans to provide unique/exclusive content, the "request-send" IPTV model has advantages over traditional "push" broadcast in today's increasingly fragmented entertainment space. Verizon is betting that these differences will differentiate FiOS TV from its more traditional competitors, according to analyst Adi Kishore. VOD, interactive features, and place-shifting can all be pitched directly to customers, but there are advantages for Verizon as well. First and foremost, of course, is the one-two punch of microscopic user metrics and targeted advertising. That pipe flows both directions, and as FiOS evolves, expect use of the upstream side to increase. Still, providing tailored access to non-exclusive content is an interesting alternative strategy to generic access to exclusive content. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| Also--wasn't VZ shouldn't have to go town to town because it's not actual "cable tv" just like ATT?
YEP! but gave up and just started going town to town but are still fighting for a new franchise reform at the state and Federal level for their tv service. |
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fruhead
join:2002-01-29
Montclair, NJ
| reply to ITALIAN926
said by ITALIAN926 :Verizon FiOS is NOT IPTV, dont make comments unless you know what youre talking about. Verizon goes TOWN TO TOWN getting franchises. Now youre a little more educated. Not in NJ. Verizon acquired a statewide franchise where the cable companies needed (and still need) individual town franchises.
Now you're a little more educated. |
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ITALIAN926
join:2003-08-16
Stratford, CT | Sorry, but I knew that. FiOS is NOT IPTV in NJ.. is it? I work in NY.. in NEW YORK they have to go town to town getting franchise approval. OOOOH KAAAY |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| just because you go town to down doesnt mean anything. They're doing that because its the fastest way go get the service out.
You and I and everyone else knows on here that if it was faster to get a state wide agreement VZ would be doing that too. Why do you think ATT's service is so limited; because they're fighting with the states. |
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