| Set to begin legal fight with FCC over growth cap... How ironic...Comcast doesn't like caps on them...but it's ok to cap us? |
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Lion84
join:2007-08-10
Marietta, GA | My same thought. How about eliminating the FCC cap on Comcast growth if Comcast eliminates their monthly usage caps? |
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said by mustang50:How ironic...Comcast doesn't like caps on them...but it's ok to cap us? Caps hinder their possible increase in profit like caps hinder our possible greater enjoyment.
To be frank, I think TV is already severely overpriced due to lack of competition and thus I do not purchase Cable TV or Satellite TV. People think one or two choices is very competitive. How many of you out there have more than one cable company to choose from? I know I don't and I live in Chicago. RCN serves only the parts of the city they found they wanted to serve. I am very in the city but they don't service my area.
Television is not a big concern for me as I am not that deeply addicted to television. I prefer Japanese anime which is hardly found in any USA network along with a few select shows like House M.D. I am more concern currently about the cell phone market which I am more affected by. The lack of competition pricing shows clearly there. The cell phone market really operates like a cartel. The television market is of similar degree, but like I said, I am not interested in television.
I think the anti monopoly regulation is fine but it needs to be expanded to telcos. A 30% market share means few are competing against it. Even worse is that VERY, VERY FEW are competing against it in the same state or county. That is ridiculously anti consumer. Lack of competition means higher prices, less inovation, and less choice for consumers.
Frankly, if I was the one making all the money I would also be fighting for expansion. Depending on what side you are on that determines what side you chose. |
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| The cell phone market is highly competitive. There used to be seven national providers (not all served the whole nation). Now there are 5. That's still more than the three needed for baseline national competition. And four of them are available in every continental state.
AT&T,Verizion,Sprint,T-Mobile
I can't believe you just claimed there is no competition in cell phones. There is plenty of competition, the problem with pricing is that the market itself is still growing resulting in increasing subscribers and revenue regardless of pricing (not that pricing hasn't come way down since cell phones started, because if you were older than 18 you would know how much cell phones used to cost). For the first time a national provider failed to grow last quarter. As a result price competition is beginning to take hold and prices should bottom out to the lowest price point possible. But that doesn't mean prices are high. On the contrary prices are pretty low given the massive infrastructure and it's maintenance costs. I wouldn't expect prices to fall below the cost of a landline + unlimited long distance plan. There is a baseline cost that must be recouped, and the constant upgrading of systems is costly. |
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lynxy
join:2003-07-27
Danvers, MA
1 edit | don't count Sprint, they cannot survive with loses they have, so we have 3 now |
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