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duranr
join:2006-10-14
Leonia, NJ | reply to tmc8080
Re: baby steps... said by tmc8080:...but it will probably encourage the 'other' cablecos (Cablevision, Time Warner can do better than 101/15 once this gets released) Whatever Comcast decides to do to the benefit of it's customers, won't motivate the other cable companies to do anything; as they all serve different areas. Even if they happen to be in the same town. It's not like a household that is served by Cablevision, can switch to Comcast or (shudder) Time Warner Cable if they're unhappy with the service.
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| said by duranr:said by tmc8080:...but it will probably encourage the 'other' cablecos (Cablevision, Time Warner can do better than 101/15 once this gets released) Whatever Comcast decides to do to the benefit of it's customers, won't motivate the other cable companies to do anything; as they all serve different areas. Even if they happen to be in the same town. It's not like a household that is served by Cablevision, can switch to Comcast or (shudder) Time Warner Cable if they're unhappy with the service. There's no incentive to improve if there's no competition to worry about. Comcast overlaps with both AT&T and Verizon in certain areas. While the Comcast-AT&T competition is already a win-win for Comcast (until a subscriber gets throttled once too many for consumption), Verizon Fios & Comcast competition is actually worth noting that when FIOS started to come to the Philidelphia area Comcast had a last-ditch effort to sway local law makers to block Verizon's deployment of FIOS. When that didn't work.. they upped their speed tiers for FREE. So, in certain instances competition isn't totally broken, just very, very very very disfunctional & self serving to the corporate interests and consumers be damned.
The stalemate between Verizon and Cablevision is an oddity. Cablevision doesn't want to raise speeds to protect it's video services and it is also in its best interest to be a "low price leader" (with $29.95 1-year into dual/triple play package tiers). Verizon tried the upping speeds thing, but Cablevision didn't bite, other than to make "available" a 101/15 tier at a substantial premium based upon limited expectation of demand. An unfortunate side effect of this duopoly situation is a stalemate. Verizon tried to raise rates & revenue and it ends up costing them customers. Same deal with Cablevision and on top of that they have the whole Video service issue that broadband ends up replacing/supplanting. | | |
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