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RadioDoc
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Re: "Technology is agnostic, but... [some] traffic is pirated."
One thing a responsible management in a regulated industry doesn't do is start taunting the head of the regulatory serpent without knowing what the tail is up to. The FCC has very real legal teeth and the ability to make life miserable via Congress.
And with a potential shift in focus from industry to consumer issues at the FCC, along with the economy sputtering out in an election year, this is not a good time for corporate grandstanding. It is far too likely to attract the attention of a publicity-seeking Congress critter who will side with the FCC and do his own grandstanding in Congress. That's pretty much how we got to this point in the first place.
As an aside, Comcast seems to be the more vocal probably due to their mediocre stock performance. Almost all of this is aimed at keeping the major stakeholders off the porch, and probably with good cause. AT&T hasn't been lighting up the night either but they've done a lot better than Comcast has in the last 5 years.
That's got to have a lot of bearing on the current flailing about.
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| Lawdy, that is some pitiful performance. Since I do not follow their stock, I had no idea they were treading such water, even though they are said to be sitting on the proverbial "mountain of cash". Why the downward pressure? Surely they cannot be spending that much on infrastructure upgrades, at least out in copperland. What's the story here? | |
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| There were heavy rumors they were either bidding in the 700Mhz auction or preparing for a move to buy a wireless carrier (both untrue). Investors also tend to be only marginally bright, and they're all terrified of Verizon's press release to the home, even if Verizon only intends to build FiOS out to 40% of their network (which actually leaves cable ops in a pretty nice position)... | |
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said by RadioDoc  :One thing a responsible management in a regulated industry doesn't do is start taunting the head of the regulatory serpent without knowing what the tail is up to. The FCC has very real legal teeth and the ability to make life miserable via Congress. Thank goodness that Comcast's management isn't responsible. Their antics are quite entertaining (and for free!!)! 
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TScheisskopf
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| I have an operating philosophy, or, if you will, an understanding of the relationship between business and society:
Sociopathy is The New Black. It is the fashion of the times in executive suites and boardrooms across the nation. Your actions, and their negative effect on the larger society they affect, mean nothing other than if they make money, or appear to try. Even if you tank the company or hell, even the economy, you will be richly rewarded. You can be The New Living Embodiment of Incompetance and run the company or country into the ground and the richest rewards will be yours on the way out the door.
It's a sociopath's masturbatory fantasy.
Now, they have turned their sensed lack of accountability, on any level, towards government. Why? Because they feel the time is right. The last 7+ years of moribund and gutted regulatory framework has taught them that they live and work in a Crowleyan/Randian Paradise where little or nothing is forbidden and there is no accountability for The Elite. Which is them. Just ask them.
They forget the lessons of history: the lay of the regulatory landscape is like a pendulum in nature. Push that pendulum real far, and it will swing just that far on its next oscillation. Push it on the way back, and it will go even farther. They seem to be ignoring the fact that already there are voices in the business community, in the markets...hell, even The Secretary of The Treasury, calling for new and tough regulations on business, markets and much more. It's a growing trend.
Gross irresponsibility will do that. Gross irresponsibility with a soucon' of sociopathy will really do that.
They sowed the wind. Now they are on the thin cusp of reaping the whirlwind. I will shed no tears for them.
I will, however, gleefully piss on their graves. | |
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