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- From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem tax back
- Message-ID: <956931.2A9A4A86@cmhgate.fidonet.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 04:29:18 EST
- Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH
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- lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
-
- CL> Why is it that rural (well, sub-urban anyway) cable companies
- CL> are charging less to their subscribers than the equivalent
- CL> situation in the city?
-
- The rural or farther out suburban folks are more likely to get a satellite
- dish than subscribe to cable. For those straddling this fence, cable has to
- be fairly cheap for it to be useful. So cable companies charge a bit less to
- be a bit more competitive.
-
- Folks in the city, however, usually don't have the choice of a satellite dish.
- Cable is the only way to go. Cable companies know this. They have no need to
- price themselves competitively against anyone or anything else.
-
- This is one reason I vote for the "video dialtone" idea. Let someone be in
- charge of the cables and billing, and providing the dial tone (be it voice
- phone, modem service, entertainment services, whatever). Let someone else be
- the actual service provider, the person who ultimately gets the money and with
- whom I contract to receive HBO, Nick, ESPN, etc. This way I can contract with
- a number of people, depending on their prices and picture quality and
- whatever, and I end up getting the best price. Competition is served. And
- someone analogous to the local phone company is in charge of running and
- maintaining the fiber cable to my house, the cable through which the various
- competing services are vying for my entertainment dollar.
-
- The whole idea of exclusive territories for cable has always bothered me. It
- also bothers me a bit that this has nothing to do with modems, yet I'm posting
- it here. So I'll stop. Soapbox off.
-
- --Adam--
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