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Re: Price goes up, demand will drop said by rahvin112: BUT, and here is the key point if you are going to act like a public utility and offer service to everyone you can and provide service to more than a single secondary building you can get the permits to install in the ROW quite easily. That's not what I was told. I called two city offices and was told a cable service wouldn't be considered a desirable use of the public's property (in the "public's interest," as you termed it) because the public is already served by a cable provider.
The problem with your reasoning is, even if I could get access to the public property (like the incumbents did), it's a chicken-egg thing. I can't serve "everyone" without starting with "someone."
That is a significant barrier to the competition which you insist exists. (And, according to my city, even if I wanted to serve everyone, they would claim that, since there already is a cable service serving everyone, mine wouldn't be a use of finite public resources for a purpose that is in "the public's interest," as you put it.).
said by rahvin112:Growing a business "organically" (what a stupid term BTW) (Chuckle.).
Stupid because it doesn't support your argument? Even though it is how the majority of business in the US starts? Small? Instead of "poof! dozens of franchises across the city."
said by rahvin112:there is no ROW restriction that says small businesses are excluded. That's exactly contrary to what you said earlier, when I suggested that I'd like to trench across the street to my first 10 customers. You said that can't be done. A person has to be prepared to trench the entire city.
But, as I already noted, my city says either is a no-go.
said by rahvin112:There are tens of thousands of small business offering communication services using cables in the ROW. I guarantee you there are not tens of thousands of cables in the ground in my area. There is exactly 1. From what I can gather, there will only be 1 in the foreseeable future. Largely due to the public's right of way not being available for widespread use.
said by rahvin112:said by amigo_boy:I'll let you know what I find out. You do that, but I don't actually expect you will do so. Your goal here isn't to actually learn anything or educate yourself. You will continue your ignorant speculation about ROW law unabated though, that I'm sure of. The funniest part is were what you were saying actually true, it would be trivial to prove it. Where's the proof? Or, I'll get the education you don't want me to have? |
