[133848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Sat Dec 18 06:51:22 2010
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:51:17 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1012171322480.5148@soloth.lewis.org> (Jon Lewis's
message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:27:44 -0500 (EST)")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> writes:
>> This Can't End Well.
>
> Why not? As people shift from watching broadcast channels to
> streaming content and look to shut off their cable TV service, but
> keep internet, the cable co's are just going to have to raise internet
> prices to compensate. I can see a future where you buy internet from
> the cable co and they give you the basic cable TV channel lineup at
> "no charge" but in reality, you're paying for the cable internet what
> you used to pay for both cable internet and TV.
Here in NoVA (Comcast former Adelpha territory), the future is now.
I used to have internet-only service (there is little on TV that I
care about). A bit over a year and a half ago, we added basic cable
to the service. Total additional cost per month to go from
Internet-only to Internet-plus-TV-bundle (same speed) was about $4.
-r
