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1 edit | Cable would love all the new customers So now the gov't might subsidize cable service for people each month? Man, Comcast, TWC and the like would love to have all those new people take on service. I wonder how much lobbying and money they would be willing to throw at the FCC to make it happen should this plan actually gain traction. |
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| said by unoriginal:So now the gov't might subsidize cable service for people each month? Man, Comcast, TWC and the like would love to have all those new people take on service. I wonder how much lobbying and money they would be willing to throw at the FCC to make it happen should this plan actually gain traction. Not everybody can get cable, they might have to pay for satellite TV for those people.
If they take away airwaves that let you receive TV for free now in order to give them to the wireless industry so those companies can charge you to use them then they would have an obligation to provide equivalent service. Maybe they could strike a deal with cable/satellite companies to provide a free service tier of just the locals to anybody that wants it, but I think over the years eventually that would cost more than the profit from selling the airwaves in the first place.
Having TV station use more efficient digital broadcasting made sense, that only required a 1 time cost of converter boxes. Taking away broadcast entirely however would cause a recurring cost to provide locals to people. |
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