[133954] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Mon Dec 20 15:20:24 2010
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:19:09 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> said:
> And yet, I don't know of any location in the US with two cable
> operators.
Huntsville, AL has Comcast and Knology (originally CableAlabama) cable
available at virtually every address (except for some apartment
complexes, which tend to only be wired for one cable plant and negotiate
a deal with one company or the other). I believe some of the
surrounding areas have overlap between Knology and Mediacom.
A number of years ago (15 or so?), CableAlabama wanted to sell out to
Comcast, and the city refused to allow it under the franchise agreement.
CA sued and eventually won a settlement, but didn't end up merging (and
became or was bought out by Knology). IIRC the settlement was 50% off
of the franchise fee for 20 years or so.
For a long time, we had the lowest cable prices in the country because
of the competition, but I don't think that's the case anymore (Comcast,
being the big corporate entity, doesn't care about competition with
Knology, and Knology just raises their prices to keep up).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
