4 edits | Re: Open Your FiOS Network! my feelings on this..
do you think at&t liked it when they were divested in 1984, they stood the same ground cablevision is standing today over content.
when the baby bells wanted to get into offering internet using DSL, they had to lease out elements in their network including the wires to the home.
also, its real convenient too that cable companies offer features that were telco originated such as call id, call waiting & voicemail. I thought telcos at least partially created this technology & had a patent on its technology but you don't see them arguing, cv you cant use it.
when this content was up for grabs, telcos, who did have interests in video well before cv grabbed the garden but weren't allowed into the video foray or they may have bid for it.
if cv holds msg-hd & it doesn't offer it for at least a reasonable rate/customer, then they should be considered as having a monopolistic hold on content.
In fact, the example is in the actual headline above -- it was already considered wrong from cable companies to have an exclusive agreement with apartment buildings, just as well, it should also then be considered wrong for cable companies to have an exclusive lock on content.
cable companies are fully allowed into the telco foray including their full line of features and cable should have to open they content they hold at full quality for some kind of reasonable price. |
