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The GAO also found that when satellite competition is present, local cable companies on average wind up offering a 5 percent broader selection of networks than they would otherwise.
What are the criteria for this? Satellite is technically available to anyone without a tree or building blocking their view of the sky....
And I have satellite...I have also tried the local cable. I can't even imagine the how it could be worse, certainly not 5% worse, as this claims it should be here. They charge more for the basic digital package than I pay for satellite, and after eliminating the duplicate programming channels, 80% of them are analog. And though that used to not mean much, the added bandwidth running over the lines from the digital channels and internet connections have made the analog channels look even worse. I would put it at about the quality of the super long play recording setting on a cheap VCR.
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USA | The people that can't get cable are also having it hard.
Dish, DirectTV, C-band.
C-band is the cheapest but isn't for the average customer. It's also a lot of upkeep.
Dish and DirectTV
One and the same, based on recent changes they model themselves after each other.
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Glendale, AZ | reply to Camelot One
said by Camelot One:
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The GAO also found that when satellite competition is present, local cable companies on average wind up offering a 5 percent broader selection of networks than they would otherwise.
What are the criteria for this? Satellite is technically available to anyone without a tree or building blocking their view of the sky....
Unless you live in an apartment, condo, or house that is part of a Home Owners Assoc. that have rules or policies that forbid you from putting in a satellite system. Some rules and policies at these locations will not allow you to put an external antenna up. Esp at most apartments and condos.
And some Arizona HOAs and their runaway rules strictly forbid a satellite antenna if is is visible from outside your property.
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Unless you live in an apartment, condo, or house that is part of a Home Owners Assoc. that have rules or policies that forbid you from putting in a satellite system. Some rules and policies at these locations will not allow you to put an external antenna up. Esp at most apartments and condos.
Federal law prohibits condos, home owners associations, and now even apartment complexes from preventing you access to satellite.
There are a few restrictions they can put on it, such as you have to use a certain color dish, certain type of mount, etc, but they can no longer flat out deny you permission to put up a dish. Now, it can be tricky, normally in an apartment or condo, the only mounting method the law gives you a right to is a non-penatrating, self contained on balcony tripod type mount, which obviously doesn't work if you don't have a clear view of the southern sky, but this is still a per case basis.
Not that it matters though, because the article is refering to "markets" in which satellite isn't an option, not homes. Most cable markets are city/county wide, so it would be tough to find an entire market that couldn't get satellite.
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 ameniteThe Soylent - It's PeoplePremium
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Ridgewood, NJ
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said by Camelot One:
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What are the criteria for this? Satellite is technically available to anyone without a tree or building blocking their view of the sky....
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Anyone who lives in a rural area does not have the same satellite options as most of us. Areas served by The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) pay more for equipment and programming, so satellite competition in these areas is somewhat skewed.
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| Well now I had forgotten about the NRTC...but with the NRTC, isn't satellite the ONLY option for TV? |
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| said by Camelot One:
Well now I had forgotten about the NRTC...but with the NRTC, isn't satellite the ONLY option for TV?
I'm not really certain how it works, but my guess is that the farther you get from a rural population center, the less likely you are to have access to cable, but if you live in a town in an NRTC area and you have access to cable TV, you would still have to pony up the higher fees for satellite services. It may also be that if you have cable available to you you aren't part of the NRTC.
Perhaps someone could clarify exactly how this all works.
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