Jipa219
join:2000-08-02
Wilkes Barre, PA | reply to Lumberjack
Re: Others can compete... What you say may or may not be true of your area, however in Pennsylvania cable companys signed long term agreements with local municipalities, thus eliminating any chance of competition. Other cable companies cannot run lines in our area due to these agreements, thus our only option is to use them or get a dish. This as always struck me as a monopoly, but apparently through some FCC/Legal loophole we are stuck with just one company, with no hope of any other cable provider running their own lines, even if they wanted to. We simply have to keep taking rate hike after rate hike without any options. I chose DSL for Highspeed for just this reason, and I will be moving to the Dish soon. This is probably the only industry that is still allowed to simply bleed it subscribers because they know that no one can come in and challange them. I yearn for the day, and its coming soon, that consumers will have had enough and these antiquated agreements. On that day other cable companies can begin to come into areas and finally reduce the prices by competition. |
