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 phxmarkWhat Country Are We Living In?
join:2000-12-27
Glendale, AZ | reply to Camelot One
Re: When satellite is "present"? 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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| said by phxmark:
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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