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Re: He's right about Brand X - agree!
said by fgoldstein  :Why would sharing bandwidth cause the property to deteriorate? "Foreign" bits on the wire would wear out the splices? Gimme a break! No, but as "Brand X" moves in and has to pay no upkeep cost for the devices on the lines, the incumbent cable provider has to layoff people and cut budgets on maintenance because they are making less money to maintain the system.
With the way the cable system is built, "Brand X" just can't come in and drop their own RF equipment in the mix and have it coexist with the existing infrastructure.
They will just be reselling the incumbent's infrastructure to their customers. Such as Earthlink does right now over Time Warner Cable. Earthlink doesn't have to maintain any part of the TWC infrastructure. |
