[133881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Bedard)
Sun Dec 19 19:35:23 2010
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:35:09 -0500
From: Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D0E843B.4010109@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The franchise fees in many markets are based on gross revenue. 5% is a
fairly standard percentage charged by municipalities to cable companies
for right of way access, etc. Not sure if I would call this a profit
sharing plan, but it's not too much of a stretch. Today with local
agreements somewhat going by the wayside for statewide franchising, I'm
not sure how the fees are charged.
Phil
On 12/19/10 5:16 PM, "William Allen Simpson"
<william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
>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....
>
