[133877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sun Dec 19 17:16:34 2010
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:16:27 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D0B9914.5080705@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/17/10 12:08 PM, Dave Temkin wrote:
> George Bonser wrote:
>> The municipality charges the cable company per HBO subscriber?
>>
>>
> The municipality gets a cut of that in a profit sharing agreement. The point was, everyone gets their tax or toll along the way.
>
Dave, perhaps you would be kind enough to tell us where you operate a
network and what municipality is able to charge "the cable company"
based on a "profit sharing agreement".
That would be against the law in Michigan. And I've never heard of any
cable company revealing its profits on a per municipality basis....
