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join:2000-10-27
Astoria, NY | Re: Dumping costly to maintain rural headends Not only will they raise rates, they'll probably end up leaving the current system in place. | |
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| patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| said by TK Junk Mail  :According to the press release, the systems are located on 125 headends in 25 different states. With 80,000 subscribers, that means that each headend has roughly 640 subscribers, indicating that those systems are extremely rural in nature. If these areas are to be upgraded, the new provider will have to raise rates to make that happen. What the hell?
If a 640 customer headend can exist, and I assume its more than a couple years old (so its operation can not be a net loss, since if it was, it would have been shut down in a couple years after starting service), there is no excuse for rural areas not having cable plant. | |
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| | openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Navarre, FL
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| Re: Dumping costly to maintain rural headends said by patcat88 :so its operation can not be a net loss It might not generate a loss for continued operations, but I would surely think that maintenance and/or upgrades will incur a loss. Did TWC purchase these markets from another provider that initially installed the infrastructure or have these markets belonged to TWC from the beginning? | |
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LighthouseHowe
@rr.com | Re: Dumping costly to maintain rural headends Many in my area (Maine) were part of Adelphia merger. Adelphia had lots of small headends with limited channel lineups and old equipment so without massive investment there would be no way to offer more advanced services. | |
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| supertech315
join:2006-03-01
Perris, CA | Gotta love living in the bunnies | |
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| fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| Re: The norm. True! Very true! Rural systems are expensive to maintain and not profitable. Larger systems end up subsidizing the smaller ones.
I think people are going to quickly be faced with some realities in this country moving forward. We've talked about this topic before and some people don't like it, but.. if you want access to the better services and all the good stuff that we in the city get, then move from the smaller towns, or put up with what you get.
Gas prices are already dictating this move. It's already predicted that the outer suburbs are going to become the new slums if gas prices continue to rise. Smaller/rural areas are not always cheap to live in like some believe. Groceries are more expensive, your phone/cable/water, etc. are usually more expensive and usually not always ran very well.
I mean, there are some exceptions.. but it's one reason I moved from the rural area I was in. I didn't like paying a premium to get half assed services and it wasn't worth it, to me, for peace and quiet. Rather, I moved to a house that wasn't on a main road.. and I have 50/5 internet and peace and quiet. | |
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awe4231
@rr.com
| Re: The norm. We'll move back to the city as soon as all the crackheads,thugs, and loft dwelling hippie types gtfo. They will of course, as soon as the city becomes more desirable. They won't be able to afford it. So fine, keep the services there. We'll just come take them! | |
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Techie714
join:2005-08-02
Anaheim, CA
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| OT: Rural This is a little off topic but still talks about small towns.
I visited a few small towns in NC a few years back to look for a new home. To be quite frank many of these towns politely asked us to leave. They did not want the "influence" of people from California or NY in there towns. There are gorgeous little southern towns with beautiful big homes & great schools. But this little slice of American heaven is being closely guarded by it's resident's. In fact in one town a lady at the gas station told me not tell tell others of this town because they "didn't want more city people ruining there town". These small towns dont want to get over crowded with TONS of people, yet they still want all the nice luxury's of the big city. | |
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| fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20 | Re: OT: Rural I say, then, lets start a website that promotes life in these little towns. | |
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| patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Time to get some city lawyers and sue the **** out of the towns for discrimination on "national origin". | |
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as4323sw
@rr.com | The problem isn't the TONs of people it's the fact that you move down here and try to run our lives. You don't respect property rights and try and set up some BS homeowners association, etc. Stay out, Carpetbagger! | |
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| | Techie714
join:2005-08-02
Anaheim, CA
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| Re: OT: Rural said by as4323sw :
The problem isn't the TONs of people it's the fact that you move down here and try to run our lives. You don't respect property rights and try and set up some BS homeowners association, etc. Stay out, Carpetbagger!
See he's one of them!
/Grabs pitchfork! | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | selling useless customers.. there will be much cutting of dead wood by telco and cable company alike in the chasing of profit... hopefully that doesn't end up leaving communities in the lurch!
(whispers... fairpoint, adelphia, at&t) | |
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mikeg803
join:2008-07-12
Columbia, SC | TWC I wish they had sold out my area. I hate Time Warner. I would never recommend them. | |
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Atvrider
@rr.com
| Re: TWC You may have hated TWC... wait until this new company owns you - they will invest NOTHING in the system and cut cost anywhere and everywhere. In a year you'll have Dish and remembering the great times you had with TWC.  | |
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| | mikeg803
join:2008-07-12
Columbia, SC | Re: TWC wow. it's hard to believe they could be worse than TWC but i'll take your word for it. Well maybe someday i can get verizon or comcast. | |
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Time Warner Cable Sells Off Some Systems
Dumping costly to maintain rural headends
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