Shaw Drops Pricing Bomb To Destroy Local Fiber ISP > they should be forced to give that deal across there coverag

they should be forced to give that deal across there coverag

As you shouldn't, because all you'd be doing is taking a short-term price break in leu of higher prices and a lack of choices in the near-future. Unfortunately, most consumers are not a savvy as you, and instead, take the Walmart mentality to save a couple cents today.

reply to chronoss2009
here's an easy fix (not the final solution but close)

Universal pricing
require that the pricing within a company is standard across all coverage, and that they offer the same packages ect

and require a time delay of at least 6-12months before a price increase

then Shaw could drop prices but they would have to drop them everywhere and if the drop them below cost then they'd have 6 months of loss

and require ISO2001 cert by all ISP's that have coverage in more than one city

Forcing companies to offer the same packages everywhere has been considered as anti-predatory pricing legislation before. No one has ever gained enough support for it because it almost always means cheaper areas of deployment end up subsidizing prices for more expensive areas of deployment. Even though this would actually bring down costs for everyone, very few people are forward thinking enough to understand this. For another example of this, see health care in the US.

well I'm sure that the ******* whereever tried to make diffrent companies charge the same but that not what I think

I think it needs to be done on a per company

and then add to it that if road construction has to be done then make it require that the infastructure be put in place for all ISP's in the area can benefit and then cost some preset cost percentage to the local gov

with this say comcast goes and runs cable all over the city then the tunnels would belong to the city and verizon could come in after and run fiber

reply to sonicmerlin
This could be done easily in Canada, but in a per-province basis.
They already subsidize rural areas with urban areas, so this point means nothing.
(i.e. living in Toronto, with 50+ year old phone lines and completed ADSL CO's, the majority of your money* is going to pay for bell to lay lines and add ADSL to CO's in rural areas and very little to maintaining your own lines.

*note, majority is of the MINORITY of the monthly fee that actually goes to costs. I am excluding the massive profit margins here.

reply to SLD