| I don't quite understand how a cable franchise currently owned by a rinky dink company being sold to an EVEN SMALLER rinky dink company is a good thing.
I say bring in one of the big providers. I'm sick of these mom and pop cable companies. If Comcast or Cox served Radford and Christiansburg we'd have higher speeds and a bigger bandwith allowance. The way I see it, the smaller the company, the more they can get away with. On the other hand, if a huge company with a huge amount of customers starts pulling shenanigans there a WHOLE lot more people complaining and things are more likely to change.
For example, a couple years ago Comcast decided they were going to throttle peer to peer (BitTorrent) traffic. The result? A WHOLE lot of unhappy people, a class action lawsuit against Comcast, and a 16 million dollar settlement for those affected. If Comcast had been some backwoods operation doing the same thing, I seriously doubt that kind of attention would have been given to the situation.
The bright side is that in 10 or 15 years this area might have fiber available. But then again, by that time the areas of the country that currently have fiber will have ISP's that offer teleportation as a part of their Internet package. |
