said by dave1950 yeah right they have been saying phone service for 2 yrs. with all that is going on with comcast it will never see the light. The city council here is about to turn our market over to comcast if insight does not make some vast improvments and pays the city some cashola.
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Well for one thing the city can't just hand over to another operator. Insight owns the cable so Comcast would either have to buy it or run new cable. Since Insight and Comcast are illegitimate sisters they won't overbuild each other.

This is where the statewide or nationwide franchise agreements are great because you don't have to screw with some city that wants to improve the infrastructure or add some stupid city council camera or channel and then put it off on the cable company to pay for it. Then listen to the bitching and moaning when the cable company raises rates to offset it. They are just basically passing on a tax via the cable company then cry wolf when they raise rates...

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said by GLIMMER :

that is not the case comcast has severed its ties with insight. your right they cant just hand over the network but they can ask another provider to buy the lines and insight would have to probobly sell it or they could just allow another company to come in and compete with insight or relaxe the restrictions on att and let them lay there fiber to the curb quicker.

said by ComTech6 :

June 1st........ Insight will loose 30% or more of its Subscibers.... Maybe thats why they put phone on the back burner.....