Combat Chuck
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| reply to fuzydice
Re: Watchdogs: Cable gouges broadband users
But thats not what they're going to get.
What they're going to get is a court set precident that companies that bundle services are extorting customers that choose not to take advantage of bundle pricing, and thus no more bundled pricing or anything that looks like bundled pricing on anything, anywhere.
Contrary to popular belief, regulation is not the holy grail of dealing with pseudo-monopolies. It's going to end in medeocre service or no service at all should comcast decide that it's not profitable to provide service under the regulation, and nobody picks up where they left off.
I might agree with you that regulation is needed if the price was way higher in areas where Comcast is the only provider, or if the price was significantly higher than other options such as DSL; but quite frankly neither of those are true at this point in time.
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