oliphant
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| Just another example of Comcrap's predatory prices
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Yeah, and we all believe their ads that muni competition is bad. If they can provide the price in that market, they should have no trouble doing it anywhere...that is unless they're breaking the law...again. »straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscod···00-.html
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BosstonesOwn
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| Watch your tongue Comcast can do no wrong. They are the alpha and the omega.
After that crack. I agree with you and have to wonder if this is the case, then why not lower the prices everywhere ? Or is it that they are using the profits from other areas to subsidize their losses here.
Comcast and all cable companies should be held to the same standards as any dbs provider. No difference in pricing in any market. dbs providers get a big fine if they do this why can comcast do this and not get fined as well?
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Combat Chuck
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Re: Just another example of Comcrap's predatory pr
You assume that price is sustainable and not just there to break even hoping the muni will flop. In the end no one knows. I wouldn't have a bad feeling if this were actual competition and not private company vs taxpayer co-signed entity.
And yes I'm aware: bonds, no taxes went in, blah blah blah; if the government is involved no matter how much they try to shelter the taxpayer, when the proverbial shit hits the fan if everyone else dives outta the way, it's the taxpayers who will get hit.
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oliphant
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Corona, CA | That is my point. If it is not sustainable and they're doing it hoping the muni will flop, that is predatory pricing and a Federal crime. |
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Combat Chuck
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| said by oliphant  :That is my point. If it is not sustainable and they're doing it hoping the muni will flop, that is predatory pricing and a Federal crime. There's more factors than that, for one I think that there has to be evidence that the intent is to kill the competition as opposed to trying to cut their losses hoping that the competition implodes on their own.
I mean it seems like what you're saying is that Comcast's only out if a muni undercuts them is to just pick up and leave. I hope you don't think that that situation is going to be good for the consumer.
It's hard for me to really discuss any Comcast/UTOPIA interaction because UTOPIA seems to be floating everything, rather than setting out a hard plan to get to their goal. It appears that their whole MO could change in a matter of minutes should they think they need to make friends.
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oliphant
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| The fact that they ONLY do this in markets where they fact competition (not just from muni's) is proof in itself.
Comcast's out is to expand these 'offers' to their entire market rather than the law breaking predatory practices they currently use. Comcast should knock off with the 4x inflation price yearly increases and substandard service. My cable bill had gone up over 30% in just 3 years thanks to a Comcrap takeover and is the highest in the region. That's simply not justified by their expenses, it's price gouging.
But now we see that suddenly those obscene margins can be shaved into once they see direct competition. |
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Combat Chuck
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| My point is that after paying to wire an area, you aren't going to be quick to pick up and leave. You're going to do what you can to ride out the initial storm and hope that it doesn't last very long.
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said by BosstonesOwn :Watch your tongue Comcast can do no wrong. They are the alpha and the omega. After that crack. I agree with you and have to wonder if this is the case, then why not lower the prices everywhere ? Same reason they don't 'tier down' to compete when alternatives arrive; they end up losing subs to their lower priced tiers.
Their answer is to offer up MORE speed. I call it SUV mentality (or mine is bigger, take your pick): Try to sell more of what people don't need because it's worked before and it's all you have. There's an inherent problem here, though ...
Once energy prices rise above median budgetary waterlines, these bottom-line feeding profit whores will have to kiss their marketing gimmicks goodbye and face up to a castrated 'free market' -- debilitated consumer buying power THEY created. They're called Rope salesmen. They sell people the very rope that hangs them in the end.
America's business leaders are destroying their blessed free market by dismantling the very ladders to success that have made our large income gaps palatable. By rewarding themselves for destroying American jobs and manufacturing, as well as engineering and scientific capabilities, our capitalist masters are sowing themselves a temporary whirlwind AND their own destruction.
Forbes reports that the combined compensation of the chief executives of America's 500 largest companies rose 54 percent last year, while Labor Department statistics report the purchasing power of an average non-supervisory worker's wage has fallen about 1.5 percent since the summer of 2003.
They call it freedom but is sure smells like death
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