 DaveDudeNo Fear
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New Jersey
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| i want 100% reliability If they have to open there network then ,they have to be as good as ILECs. Cable data and television should be designed not to go down as much as it does. I dont agree with the sharing on cable for a few reason, but i dont think its a bad idea either. Verizon cablemodem, thats kinda funny.
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  MarkyDPremium
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Oklahoma City, OK | Re: i want 100% reliability said by DaveDude:
Verizon cablemodem, thats kinda funny.
You would never see that. What this effects MORE is the ISP's like AOL, earthlink, or any other that would like to offer broadband service in ANY market but cannot because of the limitations.
I DO NOT think the cable co's should be required to share the networks they built. They are not a monopoly. There are plenty of competitors to Cable.
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 |  cjynxWhatchu Talkin' Bout
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Pittsburgh, PA | Re: i want 100% reliability I might end up being wrong on this but I think that if there are more competitors for cable modem service, wouldn't the lines that they run on become very crowded. People are thinking it would be great to have competition but would lowering the bill be better than having a less congested cable line? I'd rather stay where the bill's price tag is and keep the 3300/256 that Comcast is giving right now. Lowering the price tag means a lot more people coming on board and taking away from that 3300/256. | |
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|  pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by MarkyD:
I DO NOT think the cable co's should be required to share the networks they built. They are not a monopoly. There are plenty of competitors to Cable.
Anyone who thinks otherwise would then be wondering why Comcast is literally throwing $25/month off offers at satellite customers who switch to digital cable. If that's not proof of competition I don't know what is.
I would go even a step further to state that there is indeed competition in voice communication provided by telegraph companies. Many wireless providers completely blow away landline telegraph companies in the prices they charge for phone calls, and the telegraph companies are indeed hurting as a result (take a look at Verizon's losses in landline customers and how its affected their stock price).
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|  JakCrow
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Palo Alto, CA | said by MarkyD:
I DO NOT think the cable co's should be required to share the networks they built. They are not a monopoly. There are plenty of competitors to Cable.
Cable is different than telco in that the cable lines are owned by the city that they exist in and the cable company operates with the city's blessing. A city could end its relationship with the cableco at the end of life on their contracts and replace cable service with another provider if so desired. A company that wants to "line share" wouldn't need to use a cableco's network. | |
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| | | | Re: i want 100% reliability The city does NOT own the cable lines. The cable co pays a franchise fee to operate in that city. Personally I dont think Cable Co's should share their lines either....if a competitor wants to come into town...let them overbuild...cable co's have dished out millions...billions of dollars to upgrade their networks...now they want to open them up to competitors...why should they spend the $$ for someone to walk in and say...oh by the way...thanks for upgrading your network...now i want to get into the broadband market as well...yah right.
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join:2003-06-19
San Leandro, CA | Re: i want 100% reliability I thought phone companies are required to share their lines. Of course other companies need to pay a fair price for using their lines. It would be the same with cable companies. They can let others to use their lines but they will have to pay for using the lines. | |
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|  ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC | said by MarkyD:
said by DaveDude:
Verizon cablemodem, thats kinda funny.
You would never see that. What this effects MORE is the ISP's like AOL, earthlink, or any other that would like to offer broadband service in ANY market but cannot because of the limitations.
I DO NOT think the cable co's should be required to share the networks they built. They are not a monopoly. There are plenty of competitors to Cable.
Are you kidding?
Cable is a Monopoly in it's own right just like your Local Phone Company is a Monopoly.
There are very few areas where you choose a different Cable Company. | |
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| Re: i want 100% reliability But it is completely possible to have more than one cable company. It is possible for an entirely new person to come in and run there own lines and build there own telco.
The problem is that people that have not built there own networks or plan to ever build networks want to use the ones that others have built. | |
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| | | pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: i want 100% reliability said by keyboard5684:
But it is completely possible to have more than one cable company. It is possible for an entirely new person to come in and run there own lines and build there own telco.
Its not just possible, it has already happened in some places. Conestoga Telephone, formerly CEI Networks, formerly Telebeam, based in State College, PA laid their own fiber optic cable and began providing competing service to then-AT&T Broadband in the State College area about 3 years ago (when I left there, I am not sure what is happening there now).
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cjynxWhatchu Talkin' Bout
join:2003-01-13
Pittsburgh, PA | I was just thinking of this topic again and something else just popped into my head. If the lines were opened to sell, sell, sell, what would happen if say, Earthlink goes cable (sorry if they already are, just looking for a company for an example) they sub out to have an install on the lines that Comcast put in place. Some big mistake goes wrong and the sub wipes out an entire area just because of the competition jumping on the lines already in place. Customers of one company would be knocked out of service because of carelessness of another company. My opinion, I don't see it working well at all.
I hope that if this does all happen, they really think it through first, rather than just letting the dam break loose. | |
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DaveDudeNo Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
kudos:1 | Earthlink DSL Vs Earthlink Cablemodem!
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