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 | wombough
join:2001-08-30
Beaufort, SC | Re: Don't forget Charter! wow they go up. So does everything. Why is it that when cable goes up people flip out. Gas goes up by the day. Food goes up. Its called inflation. You can't stop it. If you don't want to pay it don't have it! | |
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BluesFan
Waiting For A Stanley Cup
join:2002-05-25
Granite City, IL | Re: Don't forget Charter! I don't mind price increases when there is COMPETITION! My line of sight is blocked, therefore I cannot get a dish. So that leaves cable and there is a local monopoly. | |
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join:2001-08-30
Beaufort, SC | Re: Don't forget Charter! yeah competition was great for natural gas in GA. Rates raised over 200% and created many companies. So it is not always good! | |
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join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA | Only if wages go up in concert. | |
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rob_in_chatt
Premium
join:2004-09-17
Chattanooga, TN | at last it is about time these bastards get controlled. but is it too late? are they too big for anyone to try and control? time will tell. | |
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DaveStarsky
join:2002-07-21
Saint Louis, MO
1 edit | It's about time, & this is coming from a former cable guy Any business would kill for the margins (profits) of the cable companies.
Clustering has actually prevented competition, but granted, has brought more services to many formerly underserved areas by interconnecting them.
By the way, overbuilding never works, unless you get some nutty rogue operator. Their end game is usually to become such a thorn in the side of the incumbent, that the big company will eventually buy them out.
The only hope is competition from the phone company... but that only makes a duopoly. And who's gonna trust the phone company??
My personal choice is the Fios bundle, or satellite coupled with cable broadband, the best of both worlds (if that can be economical). | |
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anon101
@verizon.net
| Regulation The tide has turned. Telco's have been highly regulated since the beginning and Cable hasn't. Now they will have to go thru the same crap the telco's have had to endure. Just be ready VOIP will the next thing to be taxed, the government will always get their money. | |
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JoeG4
join:2001-12-16
945941 | break em all up! Awesome.
Now break up AT&T, and this time amend the constitution to make it illegal for them to even THINK about merging together again! | |
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justbits
More fiber than ATT can handle
Premium
join:2003-01-08
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Seen it before -- ILEC vs CLEC Haven't we seen this before? This reminds me of when CLECs were given more opportunity by the FCC to use the incumbent's telephone lines for DSL. Take a look at the market for CLECs today. Few CLECs exist (definitely not as many as when there were saner FCC rules) and competition with ILECs is still very very tough. | |
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bandit8623
join:2004-09-08
Elk River, MN
| about time in my area i have dsl. qwest runs the lins but i can choose any isp i want. now that is awesome. if i went with comacast in my area which is the only option for cable can i choose a different isp? nope telcos are being way more flexible. its about time for cabole companies to be this way too. | |
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IkeElliott
@comcast.net
|  FCC Power Grab
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RibaldJester
join:2006-10-20
Urbana, IL | what about Telco's? What about the Telco's? Who the hell approved AT&T reemerging? When am I going to get *REAL* broadband competition and offerings? | |
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