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- From: andyw@aspen32.cray.com (Andy Warner)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Cable TV Rules
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.122636.5499@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:26:36 GMT
- References: <3NOV199209442919@utrcv1> <720883631snx@nlbbs.UUCP>
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- In article <720883631snx@nlbbs.UUCP>, paula@nlbbs.UUCP (Paula Stockholm) writes:
- >
- > [...]
- > I'm the last one who would be considered and advocate for the
- > Cable Companies but . . . suppose you wanted to hook-up another
- > water heater - you would expect to pay for the extra juice.
- >
- > The cable signal is not as easily "meter-able" but you would
- > be using more cable signal.
-
- Good analogy. The power company at least has the honesty to put
- a meter on your feed, and charge you accordingly. They don't
- snoop around checking what you've got connected (at least past
- your meter). Every other utility has expended a non-trivial
- amount of effort to bill you according to usage, it seems that the
- cable & sat carriers would rather expend effort legislating than
- developing a metering method (a gross generalisation, which I will
- probably be mercilessly flamed for)..
-
- > I DO agree that often the extra charge seems excessive.
-
- It seems to me any of the charges seem excessive.
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- andyw@aspen.cray.com Andy Warner, Cray Research, Inc. (612) 683-5835
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