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1 edit | reply to DaveDude
Re: Kicked out of jersey kicked out or the cities refused to renew agreements? there is a difference really. The difference would be if they were forced out they can't do business there for usually X amount of time. Refused to renew agreements? happened a lot. And thats when the company is given XX amount of time to upgrade and or they won't renew and have to sell the system(s). The cable company in my home town was like this. We had 40 channels up until about '01. No digital NOTHING. NO cable modems, HBO was run off some splitter that they installed on the pole and all. The city told them they had to upgrade or sell out and they refused to upgrade and sold out to TWC.
But now as far as force upgrades, we can forget abut those as the state has taken that away from the cities.
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Two things..
1) They prolly didn't "refuse" to upgrade, they prolly didn't have the money.
2) Just becuase states have taken over some franchise agreements (in some cases I agree, and in other cases I see it as a bad thing) doesn't necessarily mean that the states won't require a level of service. I DO, however, see it as a VERY ineffective way to manage providers as people on the state level tend to not care about the local areas in which people live, AND they're so small and cover so much they become in effective at what they do.
There IS actually a lesson from all this.. and I don't see why people can't understand this when they cry for the feds to "take care of something".. the fact is that the higher up you go in government to take care of something in your own back yard, your voice only gets harder to hear.
Smaller government is much better in many ways. I'd rather have my state or county or city in my back yard LONG before the federal government any day! |
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 DaveDudeNo Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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I agree with your statement, but RCN promised to upgrade somerset county towns 3 times, and didnt do a thing. They were given a last chance, and all the town served by them refused to resign. Which was a fire sale of the old RCN system, which became Patriot, now Comcast. |
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the cable company that sold out to TWC DID have the money. They owned a well known regional office supply company and a Radio Station. both on AM and FM. When they refused to upgrade their CaTV network and sold it, they sold EVERYTHING and moved out of the city. It was a well known issue in the city; Fremont, Ohio. The debate with the owners went on for years even though TWC tired to gain access and overbuild but that was before exclusive agreements were illegal as far as that goes.
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