 AlcoholPremium
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Climax, MI
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Re: Iowa said by IowaMan:Dang I had no idea that we had 40 Cable companies and 127 phone companies in Iowa and all I will have to choose from is CenteryHell and Mediascam  All i have is Comcast in NJ.
I emailed cablevision the other day asking if they're ever going to expand into my area because i'm tired of comcast and their crappy service which is capped to 250gb.
Cablevision replied: Thank you for your email and wanting to have Cablevision as your service provider but, all service areas are under rights of each provider. If Comcast owns the right to sell service in your town, we would not be able to.
This is the biggest problem in US that's holding us back. Exclusive broadband rights that give the company a total monopoly.
Until the FCC decides to take those off and de-regulate the industry (instead of giving them billions of dollars) , i don't see our broadband getting any better.
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| said by Alcohol:This is the biggest problem in US that's holding us back. Exclusive broadband rights that give the company a total monopoly. Lets not forget that these are/were primarily cable TV companies and the rights they talk about are for their cable TV service. Broadband actually came as an additional service and therefore are subject to the same limitations. Also there is the purely physical part. Their networks don't and will probable never overlap. |
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join:2002-03-03
USA
kudos:4 | reply to Alcohol
said by Alcohol:I emailed cablevision the other day asking if they're ever going to expand into my area because i'm tired of comcast and their crappy service which is capped to 250gb.
Cablevision replied: Thank you for your email and wanting to have Cablevision as your service provider but, all service areas are under rights of each provider. If Comcast owns the right to sell service in your town, we would not be able to. This is the biggest problem in US that's holding us back. Exclusive broadband rights that give the company a total monopoly. IF Cablevision actually said that and you didn't just hear them wrong, they are WRONG. There are NO exclusive deals anymore. That is against the law.
Now, Cablevision may mean that it isn't economical to overbuild an area. And that is just a fact of life. But exclusive deals don't exist. |
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