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join:2003-11-11
Birmingham, AL
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Re: not on the wholesale level, really?
When my cable bill is already a cheap car payment, 130$,.. and goes even higher.. Is when they lose me. Cable companies already charge outrageous prices in the US.
Which is why I can't understand how certain companies can't keep their profit margin up.
Take on average 40-50$ a customer x customer base.. + PPV/On demand etc etc.. It's constant residual income.
The only argument I can see is having to constantly upgrade for technology and needs, but it's going to happen one way or another, and if the Companies want to go further into the outrageous range, another company will come in and undercut, even if they have to build over them.
One thing CC's could do to cut costs in the "long run" is start making it a priority to run Fiber past the Node and into the homes. This would drop Trouble calls due to signal issues, bad Coax etc significantly. As it is now, the current semantics of Coax are on the "edge" of working or having poor quality. It makes more sense to bring in an overkill for the inevitable future. IE: All digital in all markets, more QAM-256B HD, more streams,.. basically Clean Bandwidth. What can achieve that? How about light? 
I know it is expensive, but think about how much it costs them to maintain what they have. Then to have to come back and upgrade over X years ,.. It would be much more advantageous to leave room for growth, imo.
Also, the quality of service is questionable in many homes.. once everyone is all digital this quality won't be quite the issue.
But anyway, back to the exact topic -- That amount of money for the transfer of the movie I'm sure has some inflated equipment/overhead costs equated, but is still ridiculous.
One more thing -- an immediate resolution to some of this would be to utilize everyone's bandwidth as in "bit-torrent" hash style sharing for like programming.
That said, Docsis 3.0 is going to blow the roof off what currently resides.
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
2 edits | Their profit margin is artificially depressed by large depreciated asset accounts which were allocated during merger mania. As a financial analyst we are actually taught this as the best method (vs. direct write offs, or goodwill application, which I guess it is), but when you overpay by billions and billions of dollars, this is what happens. The problem is when your accounting tricks replace your reality. | |
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