Right. I've pulled tons of conduit. Im talking about when they dig the trenches for the conduit. (Some are actually pulled into the ground with a machine), but when the ditches are dug and the conduit is tossed into the ditch. I've seen TONS of trash and extra string line, tape, etc all end up in these ditches with the conduit. But Comcast didn't build this infrastructure, they bought out American cable and then added on. You are right though, in that the network is now so large, no one could buy out Comcast and the startup costs to build your own network simply isnt realistic for a company to be sustainable long term. This is the legal monopoly. The other factor is there is only so much space on a telephone pole, with OSHA regulations on how far one utility must be from another. On most metro areas, the poles are the older 30-35 foot poles that don't provide any more spacing for another company tor build their own network. This is all part of the legal monopoly. Was it planned? Probably not, but in my opinion, is still a legal monopoly.
Great thoughts, but major problem. Almost every metro area has areas where utilities are not underground. I agree though in theory. If it would have been planned out better, the city would add the conduit as part of thier street building for new neighborhoods. I know it is for street lights... why not utilities? Then the city could rent them out toe the utilities for even more income ( yeah i know, lower my taxes but double my cable bill)...
Where utilities are above ground, you have two choices: dig and move the wires/cables, or pull more on the existing poles. The city still charges for construction. Where I live, the phone, cable, and electric wires are on poles. There's a pole near my back gate. If I pay $10,000+, the city will move it a few feet further away from the gate. I'm just telling you how it works.
The biggest issue we all face is towns cutting deals with companies that deny competition. Google wants to run fiber many places, but won't because of such laws and other regulations designed to keep competitors out.
Right, and many areas (downtowns) you have both above and underground. Yes you can pay to move the cable from your yard, etc, but that wont provide any incentive for another company to move in. Your speaking from a land owner point of view. I'm speaking as a cable consumer point of view. It's a not where its placed ,but how. Again, yes, you can have a pole moved, but it doesn't change the spacing between the utilities ON the pole to provide enough room for another company to come in and hang some mainline. I thought the point was how to get another cable company into town, and/or the reasons there isn't one? Having lived in CO and NY in the past 15 years, from what I know, there are very few places that actually provide more than one widespread cable option anymore.
And? They are still in negotiations. Portland worked to bring century link to compete with comcast for years, and have diligently tried to keep Frontier here for the burbs(and had them expand in 04)
You don't even really need to subscribe to PS vue. Just side load Kodi onto that bad boy and you will never miss a sporting event ever again!
Find out what 1 Gig can do for you — May not be available in your area that last part is kind of important. barfo
Huh? I have no complaint. I know how hard the city worked for us to have options. Others just assume the city wanted Comcast to be the only one.
What a fluff piece for Comcast! I had to double check that this was the Trib and not some Comcast press release. Does anybody have contact email addresses for people in the Blazers' organization who might care about our input? I can't even find a "contact" button on their website. I live in the Gorge and could not get Comcast even if I wanted to. But League Pass is blacked out anyway, so I've been screwed for all these years. I gave up my long-time season tickets in disgust. I hardly know what the new players look like anymore. When the Blazers reps call asking me to renew my season tickets I tell them there isn't Blazer-mania anymore because people can't turn on their television and watch their home team! People don't even talk about the Blazers like they used to. They've become irrelevant, thanks to Comcast and the Blazer's short sighted money grab decision nine years ago. PLEASE go with Root Sports so I can watch my Blazers again - or allow pay per streaming or something - anything but Comcast!
I'm not sure 1 Gig is going to benefit most people. The big change is it allows the provider to implement digital broadcast instead of analog. 99% of the time you'll be using near 0 kb (let alone Gb). If you stream Netflix high bandwidth HD to 5 TVs at the same time, you'll use only 4% of a gigabit. If you download 20GB of a video game, it would take 3-4 minutes, which is great. The other 23 hours 56 minutes you'll use near zero. The speed of web page loading is far more bound by how fast the www server can deliver a page. Only the most massive sites with big bucks invested in infrastructure will be slightly faster over the 1g connection. If you're pirating movies, you'll see the benefit. Unless you get caught.
I can say with certainty that they care about your input and your situation. They are aware of how the last deal affected so many fans. This is also not the same group of management that made the last deal. I'm expecting a deal that makes sense for the team and the fans. They should not black out away games, IMO.
