said by Eat Me :

When you have a brand new network built from the ground up, the experience is just going to be better.

Cable companies are still stuck with aging infrastructure and legacy customers who will complain if you take away their analog.

said by n2jtx :

When you take away the analog, you effectively raise the customers bill because they are then required to rent a box or CableCard to continue receiving the programming they got with analog. Yes, analog $ucks when compared to QAM digital but the cable companies have made switching from analog a cost increase to the end user. My sister and brother-in-law have five TV's in their house (three QAM capable) and one digital box. They were happy that the channels they watched on their TV's did not require a box. Then CV started migrating their favorite channels to encrypted digital and they were told they would need four extra boxes at the cost of $12 each ($10 box/$2 remote) to keep receiving the programming they were paying for on their other TV's. While they have not yet done it, their plan is to downgrade the service level because they don't want to pay more to watch what they are paying for and they figure they should not bother paying for all the channels they cannot watch anymore except on the one box they have.

said by JSRoman :

tThat warm and fuzzy feeling will go away. Same goes for surveys that show cable company beating telco's regarding voice service. Once hose promos are gone so goes the love that came with it.

said by baineschile :

Incumbant telco is beating cable at TV satisfaction, and cable is beating telco at phone satisfaction. What an odd world.

said by Neyland :

Cable beats Telcos in every section.

»www.jdpower.com/telecom/ratings/···-ratings

said by Mr Matt :

Check out this link and look at section 17 of the Act.

»en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cable_Tel···_of_1992

The Cable industry are going back to the days when customers were required to rent descrambling converters for each television in order to watch extended basic and above tiers of service. Our regulatory corporate sock puppets are unlikely to protect their constituents. All companies offering Television entertainment including DBS service companies should be required to deliver their services in a manor compliant with the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992.

said by majortom1029 :

Ps 28,000 people only for a whole country is not enough people to survey to say verizon fios is the best.

said by waiting4fios :

cablevision has more TV subscribers in their small 3 states than Verizon has in their entire footprint.

said by guardfrog :

...it was a given on DSLReports just a few years back that U-verse would NEVER work (FTTN was destined to be a failure) and that by EOY 2008 virtually all of the cable companies would have already deployed DOCSIS 3.0.

Now, U-verse has millions of customers and is winning JD Power awards year after year.

Makes me question some of the "givens" I read here today.