 kleinml
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Levittown, PA | Story of America. Lets level the playing field. Similar situation but different product, this is what happened to the Phone company. Back in the 80's Bell was it. If you wanted to compete with Bell you had to build a phone network from scratch. But some companies cried about it. and Regulation came in and all of a sudden the Bells had to share their Physical network they built and controlled. Yes we can get into Tax payer dollars helped build so its slightly different. But the long and short is. If you build something and its great and others want it. They will regulate you into sharing it. |
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| So with that in mind, when is Verizon going to be forced to open up the FiOS network?
After all, they want to force Cablevision to share MSG HD and News 12, so when are they going to be forced to share their lines? |
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| said by fifty nine:So with that in mind, when is Verizon going to be forced to open up the FiOS network? After all, they want to force Cablevision to share MSG HD and News 12, so when are they going to be forced to share their lines? No one cares about News12, but MSG in HD is the issue..
CV has been using their refusal to allow FIOS to carry MSG HD as a selling point for IO...
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1 edit | Right. So it's understandable why they'll fight to hold on to it, just as it's understandable why Verizon is dumping copper to get rid of the pesky anticompetitive line sharing regulations. |
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| reply to fifty nine
Line sharing and content sharing are not the same thing.
If you want Verizon to open up their FiOS network then all other cable providers need to allow other companies to offer triple play services over THEIR CABLE LINES. That is line sharing. This has nothing to do with content sharing.
#2. Verizon has no interest in News 12, that's why they created and continue to develop FiOS 1. However, regarding MSG HD, Verizon's argument is that CV provides the channel to other cable providers and to DirecTV, but arbitrarily decide not to offer it to Verizon. This is like back during civil rights movement when certain businesses would arbitrarily decide who can get service from them and who can't.
So if you want Verizon to share their lines, that's fine, let Cablevision and Comcast share their lines as well. But please don't compare it to content sharing because the two are not the same.
3- My recommendation to Verizon: Buy Disney, and say you will withhold Disney, ABC, ESPN from every cable company and I guarantee you won't have any problems getting access to the content you want and let the cable companies keep their terrestrial loophole. |
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