major marco
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| So easy even the telco errand boy can do it...
Oh yeah, I can definitely see how tracking stats would harm broadband growth...anytime you track anything, it just increases the pressure on the tracker to actually have half a clue as to WTF he's doing.  |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by major marco  :Oh yeah, I can definitely see how tracking stats would harm broadband growth...anytime you track anything, it just increases the pressure on the tracker to actually have half a clue as to WTF he's doing. The ACA represents small rural cable companies. Their point is that if they are spending their capital dollars upgrading their accounting systems to support 9 digit zip codes for reporting purposes, they won't be spending their scarce capital $'s in increasing their reach to more customers.
The NCTA doesn't have a problem because they represent the large cable companies like comcast, time warner, etc. And their accounting systems can be more easily handle reporting requirements with a much smaller percentage increase in their administrative cost budget than small cable companies can.
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major marco
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1 edit | said by TKJunkMail :The ACA represents small rural cable companies. Their point is that if they are spending their capital dollars upgrading their accounting systems to support 9 digit zip codes for reporting purposes, they won't be spending their scarce capital $'s in increasing their reach to more customers. Like I said...tracking stats puts way too much pressure on the tracker to know WTF he's doing and we can't have that. What is this world coming to expecting accurate results when there is an entire $0.02 to be saved from not doing it correctly if at all.
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Another thing it would do that they don't want, is point out nearby unserved areas for their competitors or the government to move into before they can snail-crawl their way out to them. The poor, broke, barely solvent incumbents need protection (cue sad violin music). |
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nanoflower
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The thing that gets me is they all have to have this data in any case. They need to know where there customers are to get an idea on where they need to market harder, and to see where they need to improve the plant. So all of this data is available at any half-way well run company. They just don't want to share the information with anyone (including the FCC) lest someone use that information against them. |
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wilbilt
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| said by nanoflower :all of this data is available at any half-way well run company. They just don't want to share the information with anyone (including the FCC) lest someone use that information against them. Like municipalities that the broadband providers refuse to serve?
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Yes, small rural providers like BLUE MOUNTAIN CABLE based in Cressona, PA. BMC passed off "highspeed internet" that was 2 T-1 lines bridged off to 400 or so subscribers and refused to upgrade their crappy service. This while charging $40.00 a month for it and refusing to unbundle it so it ended up being $76.00 a month. Yes they sure needed protection, while they were raping and pillaging their customers. My max speed was around 300K at night, and dropped well below 56K modems. I enjoyed the weekend long outages too, due to no tech support available on the weekends. BLUE MOUNTAIN CABLE is an embarrassment to Schuylkill County, PA--THE BIRTH PLACE OF CABLE TV!!!
Thank you Governor Rendell for Act 183, I have Verizon DSL now thanks to the legislation, it is a damn shame though we had to thwart Muni WIFI to get it in place. |
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"...rather than increasing consumer costs with costly billing-code enhancements and reporting requirements that serve no useful business purpose."
smells like BS to me. I have a hard time believing this reporting would be a large burden.
perhaps the method of reporting would be slightly onerous, but if a company doesn't have this information already, how in the hell can they have a business plan? I keep seeing numbers from verizon and att on their deployments of "xxx homes passed", "xxx homes subcribing", so they already have the information, they just don't want to report it. |
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Word. |
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