[133971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Mon Dec 20 18:14:43 2010
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:14:30 -0500
From: Dorn Hetzel <dhetzel@gmail.com>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Where I live, about 50 miles south of Atlanta down I-85, there is no
consumer broadband at all.
Satellite, Cellular, and T-1, those are my options.
A mile away, there are choices, but not here. I am sure we aren't the only
neighborhood in this situation, even today.
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>wrote:
>
> >
> > And yet, I don't know of any location in the US with two cable
> > operators.
>
> We have 2 separate cable providers in our town. One of them is a division
> of the local telephone company, but it is still CATV plant. The telco also
> operates a FTTH service with IPTV video as well.
>
> The result is that the big national CATV provider had incredibly good rates
> for a long time, and even after they were more than doubled, are still
> really good.
>
> -Randy
>
>
