Bit
Premium
join:2009-02-19
00000 | Now isn't the time...
...to illegally abuse your market position and bend customers over a barrel just because you want to profiteer while defending your insanely profitable VOD and video revenues from superior competitors like Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | They can do what they want with THEIR network. You are free to build your own and service customers the way you want. Nobody is making you use TWC or any other carrier. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| said by hottboiinnc  :They can do what they want with THEIR network. You are free to build your own and service customers the way you want. Nobody is making you use TWC or any other carrier. Unfortunately, when you get into the game of suing people so they can't compete with you, your whole argument goes out the window. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
 ·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| No its not out the window. You can compete. YOU can build our own network. Anyone can build their own network. I'm sure TWC won't sue you. I'm sure they won't see ATT for expanding. They sued when it started to come down to tax-payer money. You have choices, I have choices, if you don't like the choices, change providers or BUILD OUT your own network. And thanks to VZ fiber is getting cheaper. |
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CPUYODA
join:2003-01-25
Johnson City, TN
1 edit | But what if they're the only game in town?....then what?
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
 ·T-Mobile US
2 edits | reply to hottboiinnc
said by hottboiinnc :They can do what they want with THEIR network. You are free to build your own and service customers the way you want. Nobody is making you use TWC or any other carrier. Yeah, rrrrriiiight.
Just like as they compete with Cablevision - wait, somehow mysteriously their service areas EXCLUDE each others' streets...
Fuckin' PoS monopolies.
PS: ah and how much do they pay you to come here and spread the BS, seriously? I could use some extra income... 
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said by bicker :Waaaa waaaa waaaa. You just want what you want and don't care to factor in what is right or true. Your perspectives are un-American, and deserve far more ridicule than I'm prepared to pile on them. |
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Bit
Premium
join:2009-02-19
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1 edit | reply to hottboiinnc
Yeah, tell that to the munis who try only to have incumbent providers bribe politicians into passing laws stopping them.
So the claim that anyone can just build out a network is horseshit. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
Host:
Road Runner
PC gaming GAMES
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YOU can build our own network. Anyone can build their own network. That "build your own network" line ignores so many market realities for argumentative effect, it's a little insulting.
Were it that easy, don't you think there'd be significantly more competitors in most American markets? "Build your own network" in an age where incumbent operators appreciate the protection of well-lobbied regulators is kind of like telling a kid with broken legs to go fight Mike Tyson in a ring with a fixed referee if he's so unhappy with all that time he has to spend on the couch. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
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said by hottboiinnc :BUILD OUT your own network. Right after you pay off all the politicians, etc.! |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
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Re: Now isn't the time...
I agree.
Telco/Cable Co will attempt to slow down/impede progress on competition so that they DO NOT have to compete directly (like Cablevision/Comcast vs. Verizon FiOS).
Muni broadband is easier to sue against, as its taxpayer money vs. business.
"robust competition in the broadband marketplace ensures that service providers will act in consumers' best interests."
needs to be replaced with
"anti-competition in the broadband marketplace ensures that service providers will act in share holders consumers' best interests."
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wstcvnaca
join:2004-10-05
La Puente, CA
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said by hottboiinnc :They can do what they want with THEIR network. You are free to build your own and service customers the way you want. Nobody is making you use TWC or any other carrier. What a lame and stupid comment. GET REAL!!! |
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Simba7
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | reply to hottboiinnc
Sure.. I'll build my own network..
Oh wait.. Who's going to give me the millions of dollars up front to build it? You?
..and what's going to prevent TWC from smashing my idea into the ground? |
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
·T-Mobile US
1 edit | reply to Anon
Well, he IS a well-known paid astroturf of the cable industry here so no surprise he's spewing utter BS... check his history and you get the picture: »/postlist/887660?cat=start
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said by bicker :Waaaa waaaa waaaa. You just want what you want and don't care to factor in what is right or true. Your perspectives are un-American, and deserve far more ridicule than I'm prepared to pile on them. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to CPUYODA
Start your own? Wild Blue? Hughes Net? You have options. If you don't like it then build your own? |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to Bit
Anyone can. You can go out and build your own network. Nobody said ANYONE included the gov't. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to Anon
Sorry don't work for the local cable company. But if you read my posts before you would know that. I work for a company based out of Ann Arbor, MI and for Meijer Stores, Inc. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to wstcvnaca
Re: Now isn't the time...
how is it a lame or stupid comment? it is THEIR network. YOU DID NOT pay for it. the FEDS DID NOT pay for their network. They started small and got the size they did from cities that could not get anyone in. NOW many states have laws where ANYONE PRIVATE company can become a CATV/IP company if they want. Go spend your money and start building out.
If you don't like it don't use the damn provider you're on now. It's that easy. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to kamm
Go build your own and thank your city for creating them. You wanted TV and Phone. Well that was the only way you were going to get it back when they came out. |
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