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Re: Stupid Time Warner I'm sorry, but your lengthy post shows that you clearly do not know what you are talking about. If we were talking about a bunch of ISPs that were losing money hand over fist that'd be one thing, but almost ALL of these companies are posting record profits.
The thing that's scaring the cable companies is the threat of netflix, hulu, etc. The fact that their video revenue may one day go away scares the shit out of them. Rather than trying to compete they choose to hit below the belt. If they had competition that would be fine, people could vote with their wallet. The trouble is, most people DON'T have competition.
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1 edit | said by Eek2121:I'm sorry, but your lengthy post shows that you clearly do not know what you are talking about. Wow.. you came to that conclusion based on the length of my post? Simply.. wow.
If we were talking about a bunch of ISPs that were losing money hand over fist that'd be one thing, but almost ALL of these companies are posting record profits. Again, record profits is a bad thing? What IS a record profit? Let me clear this up for you. If they posted a profit of just $10 this quarter and next quarter they posted a profit of $11, and the next quarter it's $12.. got news for you, that's record profits. Simplicity doesn't work in a conversation of this nature.
The thing that's scaring the cable companies is the threat of netflix, hulu, etc. The fact that their video revenue may one day go away scares the shit out of them. Rather than trying to compete they choose to hit below the belt. I think I covered that..
If they had competition that would be fine, people could vote with their wallet. The trouble is, most people DON'T have competition. And who's fault is that? The provider that came in and built? The phone company that won't extend their plant in fear of losing money? The politicians that allowed a monopoly to begin with? or the consumer that often makes competition not worth it to others to even TRY to come in to a market place? You have to remember, if another provider is going to serve a market, one of the places they look to for statistics is the books of the current provider if they are public.
Government getting involved is not always a good thing. In fact, they OFTEN screw things up when they meddle. Government isn't supposed to control businesses, like Obama seems to think.. rather, they SHOULD spend more time doing the job they are SUPPOSED to be doing which is fostering an environment FOR competition. IN fact, when they try doing that, they often fail. They USUALLY hold the current provider down and hostage while they give the next guy all the breaks. I think you're anger is misplaced.
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Trust me.. I won't.  So far, to be honest, nothing you said made much sense to begin with. It was mostly emotional and not very much fact based or even well explained. In short, I read this as "You're wrong, there's no competition, that's the problem, look it up".. |
