oliphant
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2 edits | This will be the norm...
Predatory pricing is nothing new for Comcast (»'Discounted' Competition) and people laughed that the "AT&T" funded" study story of yesterday, but we see that they're obviously right. Wireline competition will bring down cable prices and force other changes to the cable business (unbundling).
Wish Comcast would offer this everywhere (don't offer it here in SoCal anyway) instead of engaging in predatory pricing but as wireline competitors like Verizon, AT&T and munis deploy, they'll have to offer it everywhere or lose their customers.
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Iridium
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| said by oliphant  :Predatory pricing is nothing new for Comcast (» 'Discounted' Competition) and people laughed that the "AT&T" funded" study story of yesterday, but we see that they're obviously right. Wireline competition will bring down cable prices and force other changes to the cable business (unbundling). Wish Comcast would offer this everywhere (don't offer it here in SoCal anyway) instead of engaging in predatory pricing but as wireline competitors like Verizon, AT&T and munis deploy, they'll have to offer it everywhere or lose their customers. So Comcast bundles because most people in SoCal don't have a choice? Thats terrible. I hope other communities across the nation do what project UTOPIA is doing. We need a choice out here.
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bassthumpa
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said by oliphant :Predatory pricing is nothing new for Comcast (» 'Discounted' Competition) and people laughed that the "AT&T" funded" study story of yesterday, but we see that they're obviously right. Wireline competition will bring down cable prices and force other changes to the cable business (unbundling). Exactly... and it really shouldn't take any kind of study to convince people, it should be common sense. But who needs common sense when it's so easy to just pile on against the big bad telco, regardless of the issue at hand?
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oliphant
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They started bundling here (in my neighborhood) after they bought ATTB/MediaOne out. When they were AT&T Broadband there were no bundling requirements in our franchise and they let us keep our higher MediaOne upload speeds and they had great usenet servers. After Comcast bought them out those HSI subscribers without CATV saw a 33% price increase and now they won't sell the top HSI tiers to non-CATV subscribers (eg non-CATV subs can't get the 8Mb tier here) and they killed off ATTBi's usenet servers.
Verizon is deploying FIOS in a lot of local neighborhoods where I live out here in the sticks off I15. South Corona and Lake Elsinore are seeing deployments right now so we should have FIOS available late in the year. Given the sorry shape our local Comcast franchise is in with really bad service and the high prices...Comcast will have to act quickly to improve or lose even more customers.
I think FIOS here will get them to clean up their act and I hope they do. Service was awesome under ATTB and I wish Comcast would return to those days otherwise it would just permit Verizon FIOS to suck as well.
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oliphant
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Telco's have done their share of anti-muni BS; like I think it was Bellsouth that was threatening to fire everyone in a local call center if a local muni fiber plan was approved, but my neighborhood case it's an enemy of my enemy is my friend kinda thing.
If muni's and Verizon get cable to clean up their act where they are delivering bad service and if cable drops their prices, unbundles or gives great bundle deals and improves their service as a result, their new improvements will force the new competitors to keep up their services and keep prices low. When the munis, telcos, DBS and cable companies go to war, consumers win.
I certainly don't hope that our local Comcast is killed by Verizon FIOS. I just want my local Comcast franchise to get back to the great provider with reasonable prices that they used to be.
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