 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to PetePuma
Re: Cable has NO EXSCUSE TO CRY!!! said by PetePuma:
2. Why would your cost go UP? Competition will bring the price DOWN. If DSL was regulated as Cable, you think Verizon would be charging only $39.95 if nobody else could offer it to you?
My cable bill is about $65 a month (I have expanded basic service from Comcast, and I am paying the $19.95 a month for cable modem service promotional rate). On this bill is about $3 in taxes and franchise fees. If this ruling stands, I am going to see a 9.1% tax, USF fees, and other BS charges get tacked onto my cable bill. That's how its gonna go up.
As for Verizon charging $whatever price, it doesn't matter because in my previous residence, I could not get DSL, and in my current one, I didn't bother to check, but its probably not available here either. Even if it was, I would still be wasting cash on a landline I will never use.
If other big-name ISPs want to compete with the cable company, they can make the investments and run their own wires and compete all they like. The fact that these ISPs don't want to spend this cash to do it doesn't mean that I should subsidize their lousy business model (sound familiar, folks?) with an increased hit on my cable bill.
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