runnoft
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join:2003-10-14
Deerfield, IL
 ·Comcast
4 edits | Not a new situation
I remember another situation with a Comcast customer who was willing to foot the bill to run the cable 10,000 feet to his home and Comcast still said "no" because they didn't want to be responsible for servicing it in the event a storm knocked it out or a squirrel chewed it through or it just didn't perform up to spec. It didn't matter that he was willing to waive all claims on this. Comcast just didn't want the headache of dealing with it, with him, or whoever might own the place after him.
The user agreements often give the cable company the right to make this decision as well, making a threat of a lawsuit empty. Building a play house isn't going to fool them. People have tried to pull that one before, and so now there are often standards within the user agreement about what kind of structure the cable can be run to and where it can be relayed after that (commonly only within the first structure) that would specifically exclude this workaround.
Cable companies used to be much more accomodating just to get customers here and there. Now if they see a downside in you to their bottom line, you're out. See the 250Gb cap discussion>soon to be 200Gb>150Gb etc., I'm guessing, for further evidence of this. |
