  inteller Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08 Tulsa, OK | All Your Base Are Belong To Us!
get ready for some really "top notch" service hahahahahaha
so much for competition. -- "WHEN THE LAUGH TRACK STARTS THEN THE FUN STARTS!" |
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  MacLeech The one and only Premium,MVM join:2001-07-14 SoCal
| said by inteller :so much for competition. Comcast, Time Warner, and Adelphia didn't compete anyway, they just sliced L.A. into 3 seperate, non-overlapping, service areas.
who has the last 2% I believe Charter, Cox, and a few independent companies service the last 2%. »www.lacity.org/ita/pdf/CableBroc···ov03.pdf -- For official Adelphia support, contact Adelphia. I'm just here for advice... |
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  TK Junk Mail Go ahead, make my day Premium join:2002-03-03 Margate City, NJ clubs:
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| reply to inteller said by inteller :get ready for some really "top notch" service hahahahahaha so much for competition. »www.latimes.com/news/opinion/edi···itorials
Critics of the Adelphia deal complained that letting cable operators consolidate their hold over local markets would make it harder for competitors to enter those markets. They also warned that local regulators would have a tougher time protecting against abuses because they wouldn't be able to compare the local franchise with those of nearby communities.
Such complaints, however, overlook what's happened to the communications market over the last decade. With rare exceptions, cable operators haven't competed against each other. Instead, they've battled other providers, including satellite operators and, soon, telephone companies (which will be driven to compete in the cable market, whether consolidated or fragmented, by the cable operators' entry into phone service). -- -- Join Red Room Forum BLOG tkjunkmail.blogspot.com My Web Page |
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 moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21 Glen Burnie, MD
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| said by TK Junk Mail : » www.latimes.com/news/opinion/edi···itorialsCritics of the Adelphia deal complained that letting cable operators consolidate their hold over local markets would make it harder for competitors to enter those markets. They also warned that local regulators would have a tougher time protecting against abuses because they wouldn't be able to compare the local franchise with those of nearby communities. Such complaints, however, overlook what's happened to the communications market over the last decade. With rare exceptions, cable operators haven't competed against each other. Instead, they've battled other providers, including satellite operators and, soon, telephone companies (which will be driven to compete in the cable market, whether consolidated or fragmented, by the cable operators' entry into phone service).
You know, you criticize MSN for being too liberal and the LA Times can be just as bad. 
As for competition, I have it between 2 cable companies where I live and the prices are not only lower BUT service is better than in the one provider area. The editor who wrote that tripe probably has no experience with living in a 2 cable provider area. |
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  ieolus Support The Clecs
join:2001-06-19 Duluth, GA | Do you know how rare it is to live in an area where you can choose your cable provider?
I don't know, but I'd like to find out.. any takers? -- "Speak for yourself "Chadmaster" - lesopp |
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  en102 Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA | reply to MacLeech Well, I sure hope that they take over the Valencia market (5 miles outside of Los Angeles city limits). Valencia is pretty much a Comcast Island surrounded by TimeWarner. |
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  idjk
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| reply to moonpuppy Year ago I had 2 providers in my neighborhood and even though 1 company never really offered me any service, their cable was in the ground and my rate was about 20-25% cheaper that my old house across town- same provider. It was all new so service never came into the deal. The 2nd provider pulled out abandoning their plant and prices went up overnight. |
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  hamburglar_
join:2002-04-29 Columbus, OH | reply to ieolus I have cables coming into my house from WOW (»www.wowway.com) and Time Warner (»www.twcol.com). |
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 Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26 North Andover, MA
| reply to ieolus I lived in a Comcast/RCN serviced area. Now that was nice.. super low prices, and great high speed internet. I pay twice as much now that I'm in Comcast only territory (about 25 miles North).  |
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join:2001-10-05 Rockville, MD
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| reply to ieolus I don't know about 2 cable providers in the same market, but according to the GAO, 10% or less of U.S. consumers even have a choice of more than one provider (cable, telco, whatever).
I would imagine the amount of people that have a choice of more than one cable provider is easily in the low single digit percentage. |
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  MacLeech The one and only Premium,MVM join:2001-07-14 SoCal
| reply to en102 said by en102 :Well, I sure hope that they take over the Valencia market (5 miles outside of Los Angeles city limits). Valencia is pretty much a Comcast Island surrounded by TimeWarner. You will get your wish. All the Comcast properties in Southern California are being turned over to Time Warner as part of the deal. -- For official Adelphia support, contact Adelphia. I'm just here for advice... |
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 patcat88
join:2002-04-05 Jamaica, NY | reply to ieolus Parts of NYC has RCN as a competitor or exculsive to Time Warner. Southwestern CT has a telco HFC plant but it was abandoned when SBC bought SNET. |
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