Cheese
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join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
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Re: Good for Shapiro
said by GOLFnSUN  :He got his cable connection. He got to dump on the cable company for making him wait so long. He got a free iPod. He got what he wanted and that is the main thing. Why should he care whether the telco is using his "I hate Cable" story for their own use. That is someone elses problem. This is why.
"The user pleaded with Time Warner Cable for five years to no avail. The company did five surveys to estimate how much it would cost to wire his road, with estimates ranging from $18,000 to $26,000 dollars. Bombarded with service ads, the user says he filed complaints with the NYS Public Service Commission, filed petitions, and attended town board meetings, all to no avail. "
They sent ads to his home for the service, then want him to pay out the nose for it? Wrong. I would have done the same thing if I was in his shoes. They strung him along for 5 years for something they had no plan on giving him unless he gave them that much money? That to me, is utterly wrong. |
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packetscan
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
clubs: | I bet for ever TV commercial and print add that HE has seen The costs associated with such marketing likely would have paid for the install and then some.
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Cheese
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join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
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| said by packetscan :I bet for ever TV commercial and print add that HE has seen The costs associated with such marketing likely would have paid for the install and then some. Exactly. And I don't know for sure, but he can not be the only person on the street. |
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shapiro44
join:2004-03-01
Highland, NY
| exactly, Cheese69. Cablevision built the whole neighborhood
to pole #12 on my street. TWC system ends at pole #11. The two cable systems are now 1/10th of a mile a part.
Cablevision spent a special salesman who drove up and down
the road for days. I saw his list one day, maybe 10 days
after he started. He already had 20 customers interested
with columns checked for TV, internet and phone.
All together there are 32 homes here that previously was
in blackholeville and now can have Cablevision. |
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elvey
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join:2001-02-17
San Francisco, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
 ·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
| reply to Cheese
Karl -
Great story.
Thanks.
I guess it's not obvious to some, but it's obvious to me that it doesn't cost 20 grand to run cable a few hundred feet in a rural area.
It's about as credible as the claim that allowing competitors in an oligopoly to merge increases competition.
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footballdude
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join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
| said by elvey :I guess it's not obvious to some, but it's obvious to me that it doesn't cost 20 grand to run cable a few hundred feet in a rural area. Perhaps it was necessary to install some sort of high speed signal booster as well? That's the problem where I live. My closest CO is DSL ready, but I live just a little too far from it to get DSL. To put in the necessary equipment to boost the signal for my neighborhood would cost around $20,000, or so I'm told. |
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shapiro44
join:2004-03-01
Highland, NY | Cablevision put up a new node in my neighborhood.
Not right on my pole but close enough. |
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packetscan
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
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| reply to elvey
Depends..
Do you need to close the road at all?
-the township might require a police officer(s) to direct traffic.
Is it going in the ground?
- survey fees, researching other utilities in the area, cost of materials.
Are you using Overhead poles? Who owns these poles? do they require rent?
There are so many little things to think about including supplies, man power, depreciation on tools and vehicles.
If you have to open the road, Open your checkbook.
I had to fix a 4x6 ft section of roadway after fixing a sewer line. that was 5k. So dropping conduits must be about the same ball park.
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elvey
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join:2001-02-17
San Francisco, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
| said by packetscan :Depends.. Do you need to close the road at all? -the township might require a police officer(s) to direct traffic. Is it going in the ground? - survey fees, researching other utilities in the area, cost of materials. Are you using Overhead poles? Who owns these poles? do they require rent? There are so many little things to think about including supplies, man power, depreciation on tools and vehicles. If you have to open the road, Open your checkbook. I had to fix a 4x6 ft section of roadway after fixing a sewer line. that was 5k. So dropping conduits must be about the same ball park. Yes, costs add up fast, but this is a 'rural' area. So I assume everything is above ground. (I wonder how rural 'rural' is...). Rental costs don't factor into the figure in question. I wonder how long a cable signal (TV/Broadband) can go in COAX and how it compares to DSL over UTP.
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