| reply to Skippy25
Re: Open Your FiOS Network! said by Skippy25:So I can create a product / service who choose to sell it to who I want? Can I exclude blacks, hispanics, and gays? Can I contract it with a company that has the policy of selling it to only blacks, hispanics and gays? Verizon is not a protected class. |
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Hingham, MA | It would be, if the channel was delivered over microwave or satellite.
We make exceptions to such rights to promote various things the government deems good, such as racial equality. The government has stated that it is its goal to promote competition between television providers. It doesn't sound as unreasonable as you're making it out to be. |
| CV picked up the garden when VZ couldn't yet offer video -- result - not fair, anticompetative.. whatever you want to call it.
Cable companies through mergers, acquisitions, etc. have been eating up ailing if not any other reasons, content companies.. whats left is few and far between. It doesn't pay for telcos to try to p/u whats left cause ppl are so used to what is already in place out there, the only way to compete fair and square is, for an additional reasonable price or not, they have to open their network.. not just what they decide to pass over the satellite.
When phone co's wanted to offer the internet, they had to open their networks to competitors, did cable.. no. Cable cant have it both ways, if their going to provide phone services, they offer internet without having to open to competitors and I don't even care if they do cause competition should drive down price -- just open your content for a fair price and the arguments can be dropped. |
