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- From: mikea@zorba.gvg.tek.com (Michael P. Anderson)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: pressure those nasty Bay Area cable companies!
- Message-ID: <5776@gold.gvg.tek.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 04:35:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com> <13763@optilink.COM> <ubrtf2c@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <ubrtf2c@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
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- >But in every place I've gotten cable service, the cable provider
- >was a monopoly. I couldn't punish one provider for bad service
- >by going to another one. A political solution is possibly the
- >only one in this case.
-
- Yes, monopoly is the problem. But finding a political solution is nigh
- impossible when some say "give them competition!" and some say "make them
- a government agency!" and some say "regulate them as privates!"
-
- I say regulate them as a utility, and get the PUC involved.
-
- One more thing. Banking should be a utility as well.
-
- MPA
-