[119437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Wed Nov 18 23:39:59 2009
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:36:25 -0500
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
To: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
In-Reply-To: <1258558866.5216.16.camel@Acer-Linux>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Bret Clark expunged (bclark@spectraaccess.com):
> Want to get broadband out to people, then deal with duopolies that many
> of the regions in the country have...such as Verizon & Comcast
WRT to Comcast ...
There is nothing preventing *any* company from building a cable network in any existing MSO territory. Each license is negotiated town-by-town, county-by-county, there aren't any exclusivity agreements, which allow companies like RCN to compete.
The reason why there isn't more local competition is, well, it's kinda seriously captial inte$ive. You ever notice why RCN doesn't overbuild in East Nowheresville, MI (where Jared lives apparently :)??? Because it's not profitable!
-Steve (Comcast employee, speaking on my own behalf)
