[133992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Reed)
Tue Dec 21 09:18:16 2010
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:18:00 -0500
From: Scott Reed <sreed@nwwnet.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 12/20/2010 6:14 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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