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Cenodoxus posted:Another factor preventing shared cable markets is that many municipalities offer a pseudo-"protected monopoly" status to cable carriers in exchange for the carrier agreeing to provide service to the entire area. The local government gets their constituents internet access, and the cable company gets so many years of almost guaranteed It's this right here, mainly. Cable companies go to local governments and whinge about how much they're gonna have to invest for INFRASTRUCTURE and how they can't possibly bear the burden of competition and get INCREDIBLY favorable arrangements for decades and decades. psydude posted:Well, in Comcast's defense, they never really enforced the cap when they had it in my area. Because gently caress them, that's why. Data caps are completely arbitrary and the companies themselves have outright admitted this. "B-b-b-but you're affecting performance for other users!!" is complete bullshit and always has been.
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psydude posted:Service providers always oversubscribe their lines, just ask anyone who owns a cell phone inside of a major city. This does not apply to cable, or at least I've never seen a shred of evidence that it does.
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Install Windows posted:Why do you want it to not go through, exactly? What? Why would anyone WANT it to go through? How can it possibly be any sort of benefit to the cable subscribing public as a whole?
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Install Windows posted:so really what we have going on here is nothing changing for consumers at the worst and maybe some better performance at best. Uhh, I would say that personally, my own service would go to poo poo if it were run by Comcast, and I have had accounts for long periods with both companies. I am not at all excited about the idea of sacrificing even the illusion of competition on the idea that MAYBE somehow, magically, this merger will make things better. If anything, Google Fiber coming in has taught us that competition has entrenched companies making GBS threads their pants and we need more of that. Oh, hello upgrade from 50Mb to 100Mb for ~$8/mo. Thanks for that thing that wasn't even possible a year ago, but now you're desperate to keep people from jumping ship.
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Install Windows posted:And here's the thing, these two companies not merging can never provide the incentive for either to boost speeds. That can only be done by actually having other options, like all fiber companies, or the very rare cable overbuild companies like RCN. Surely you've noticed that Google Fiber was made by, well, Google and not an out of territory cable company trying to muscle in on someone else's turf? Yes, so we need more competition and not more monolithic cable companies. This merger does not further anything remotely resembling a customer serving agenda.
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Sounds like it's mostly because Cogent is a giant piece of poo poo. (They are.)
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So should we have a law saying that the same company can't run both content creation and content delivery systems?
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Install Windows posted:That would basically make television networks illegal, so no. How so, excepting digital OTA signal? And fine, you can't generate content and then serve generalized delivery service. The networks only really broadcast their own stuff.
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Install Windows posted:
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:There's a reason that he's one of the most ignore-listed users on the forums. "Install Windows" is fishmech, a man whose posting is so bad his posts were once set to automatically redirect to a thread in the gas chamber. You know at the end of The Usual Suspects when the guy figures everything out and the camera lingers on him with that shocked look on his face as realization hits him? That was me just now.
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