The First Honest Cable Commercial

Everyone knows this fake ad is the truth, except our elected officials,who seem to be turning a bribed blind eye to the obvious illegal practices of Cable operators.

Did you miss the "gentleman's agreement" about no competition?

Also their service is quite like the ad, unless you happen to have all day waiting for them to show up...

There certainly is for Verizon, it was questionable if the FCC and DOJ were going to approve it. That was discussed here not too long ago.

I would say if we knew what went on in the 'closed door' meetings there would be more than ample evidence of illegal activity.

So how many communities have more broadband service that competes at the same level? Most have a cable company at the upper end, DSL at the bottom end and a wireless carriers that operate somewhere around DSL speeds and charge per GB.

Yea... TONs of competition.

Scheduling tends to be a 4 hour window (certainly not something to schedule work around) and yes, I've had Comcast knock and bolt.

The bottom line here is that there is literally NO competition because there isn't enough 'like' products to compete against.

Typically there are two non per GB offerings, DSL and Cable, with one company offering DSL and one company offering Cable. DSL takes the 1-6mb space. Cable takes anything above that.

The deal is not alleged, it needed approval from the FCC and DOJ.

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But under the deal, the companies agreed to not publish adversarial adds in regions of mutual service, instead offering up mutual advertising campaigns and dividing up customers.

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The bottom line here is that there is literally NO competition because there isn't enough 'like' products to compete against.

Other than some very minor glitching with their ancient Moto STB's and the annual price expiration ritual, our regional cable companies - Time Warner, Charter and Cox, resemble nothing of the mythical firm represented in this ad.

Other than some very minor glitching with their ancient Moto STB's and the annual price expiration ritual, our regional cable companies - Time Warner, Charter and Cox, resemble nothing of the mythical firm represented in this ad.

They continue to invest in plant, their technicians are fairly prompt, patient and helpful, and their broadband offerings continue to improve.

.For me the only thing right about that rant video is price. I agree that cable prices are too high but the same is true for my other choices which are uverse or dishnetwork or directv which btw is in bed with at&t.

I've never had a problem in the 5+ years I've been with TWC my internet speeds went from 10/1 to 15/2 to 50/5 what I have now. TWC's picture quality is far superior to what uverse has to offer.

I don't see any truth in that video.

Correct, seems to be yet another telco paid shill making a dumb youtube video.

For me the only thing right about that rant video is price. I agree that cable prices are too high but the same is true for my other choices which are uverse or dishnetwork or directv which btw is in bed with at&t.

I've never had a problem in the 5+ years I've been with TWC my internet speeds went from 10/1 to 15/2 to 50/5 what I have now. TWC's picture quality is far superior to what uverse has to offer.

I don't see any truth in that video.

Obvious illegal practices?

Other than some very minor glitching with their ancient Moto STB's and the annual price expiration ritual, our regional cable companies - Time Warner, Charter and Cox, resemble nothing of the mythical firm represented in this ad.

They continue to invest in plant, their technicians are fairly prompt, patient and helpful, and their broadband offerings continue to improve.

The main problem with the cable industry is that they have to buy programming from the content monopoly. While I think they could be much more aggressive, pay-tv price increases reflect the market power of the networks and studios, not the cable/satellite industry.

The main problem with the cable industry is that they have to buy programming from the content monopoly.

Everyone knows this fake ad is the truth, except our elected officials,who seem to be turning a bribed blind eye to the obvious illegal practices of Cable operators.

I would also like to know when the FCC is in charge of advertising. Last I knew that was the purpose of the FTC.

My only nit is blaming only collusion between companies and not the granting of monopoly franchises by local municipalities. When there can legally only be one cable company, what do you think is going to happen?

My only nit is blaming only collusion between companies and not the granting of monopoly franchises by local municipalities. When there can legally only be one cable company, what do you think is going to happen?

and most of the country can in fact get FTTH and have been for years,

.saying its slower- meaning you can't get it. You can get it though; and most of the country can in fact get FTTH
.want the gov't to give it to ya either by creating a "company" that operates on tax dollars (think Amtrak which was a stupid idea to keep around) or wants gov't regulation-
.when companies refused to build out their own network to start off with when they knew line share was going to die.

saying its slower- meaning you can't get it. You can get it though;

The swearing adds nothing to the message

I love this video, and the 2,000,000 views it has received in just seven days, because it shows there is a huge market for better, competitive services like »sonic.net/fusion/.

-Dane

slow DSL? 20mbps? REALLY ? ? ? And any mention of the word AT&T in the ad...wouldn't touch it with a 1,000 foot pole...
You obviously work for this company, eh?