TK Junk Mail
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join:2002-03-03
Margate City, NJ
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| Multiple reasons for no cable-cable competition
There are multiple reason there is no cable to cable competition:
1. Political corruption - the city/municipality/township pols signed an agreement to only allow 1 cable franchise exclusive right to run cable in exchange for donation to their campaigns.
2. It isn't economically profitable for another cable company to wire a locality and try to get business thru lower prices or better offerings. And for many small/poor communities this is the major reason.
3. Semi-monopoly status of the cable industry where there are now very few players because of mergers. The incumbent players find it more profitable to just carve up the territories rather than to compete against each other.
The only competition cable TV will get in entrenched areas is either thru satellite(but prices aren't really that much lower) or thru telecomm providers. But telecom competition will take years before they make any real headway. And when they do, I'll bet prices won't be that much better. And cable will just lower prices in those areas where real competition exists. But 2010 will be the date before this really starts happening. So for now, cable users are stuck, unless they decide to go to the trouble of switching to satellite. But only the really outraged or really mistreated cable customers will go to that trouble.
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KoolMoe
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join:2001-02-14
Annapolis, MD
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| Re: Multiple reasons for no cable-cable competitio
We have two cable options where I live. Unfortunately service from the slightly lower-priced option kinda sucks. So I'd like to move to satellite - but that requires a satellite box at every outlet.
We have two TVs which have cable boxes so they can get digital cable. But my HTPC and one of my computers both have TV tuners. I don't have cable boxes for those - so I can't get digital cable BUT basic analog cable works perfectly....which is fine for those two computer's needs.
I do NOT want to have to connect satellite tuners between the coax and tuner for those computers. So unless I can get 'basic service' without a tuner box, satellite is not an option for me...
At least I have two cable companies to choose from. I just wish the lower-priced one was decent. Otherwise it's Comcast which is 1) expensive and 2) a monopoly I don't want to support.
Ah well.
KM
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