[37205] in North American Network Operators' Group
[Fwd: Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Mon May 7 13:14:54 2001
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:59:01 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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woops, this was supposed to go to the list.
-------- Original Message --------
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
Subject: Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US]
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
CC: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Except that most of today's cable systems were built while municipalities
> could, and did, grant exclusive franchises. Overbuilding an incumbant
> cable operator is as expensive and risky as becoming a CLEC - probably the
> reason that neither CLECs nor cable overbuilders are showing much
> commercial success.
Before being subsumed by SBC and forced to divest Americast, their
cable-TV service, Ameritech did it.
They reached a grand total of two Cleveland suburbs with the service.
Maybe three.
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