cwh
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Re: Expect this to be overturned
said by majortom1029  :Still , how does that protect the monopoly. Those rules protect the people in the not as rich areas so that the whole town will get wired. ! village out of a whole town is not competition. How does it protect them? It discourages investors from creating competition. It makes the build out risk too high for investors.
In simple terms, how much money are investors willing to spend to possibly take 15-20% market share away from the incumbent. The franchise agreement keeps the bar high and investors away. It is that simple.
But answer this, how well are the poor(if you call poor being able to afford cable tv poor)served by living under monopoly conditions? |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by cwh :[ In simple terms, how much money are investors willing to spend to possibly take 15-20% market share away from the incumbent. The franchise agreement keeps the bar high and investors away. It is that simple. And demands that new franchisees do a full build-out in 3 to 5 yrs when the incumbent cable company took a couple decades to do so is ludicrous and the reason for the FCC rules.
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moonpuppy
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| said by TKJunkMail :And demands that new franchisees do a full build-out in 3 to 5 yrs when the incumbent cable company took a couple decades to do so is ludicrous and the reason for the FCC rules. Wrong. It has been done before.
Baltimore City signed a franchise agreement in 1984 with United Cable and was required to have 100% build-out in 4 years. They came close save for a few pockets here and there.
Now, if you think this will spur innovation, again I bring out Baltimore City. They just recently got cable modem service 3 years ago (16 years after they first started.)
So the 3 to 5 year build out rules are not ludicrous but very obtainable.  |
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CableTool
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said by cwh :But answer this, how well are the poor(if you call poor being able to afford cable tv poor)served by living under monopoly conditions? Extremely well, because the incumbant cable provider was held to build out contracts and provided them with cable as they did the rest of the town.
Now, statewide franchise..whole different ball game. No one is running fiber past Cabrini Green. But there is cable there.
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