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Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post () rsuc gweep net>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:31:09 -0500
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:16:30AM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: [snip]
So from about 1996 to 2000 we had competition. They then figured out how to rig the system so there is no effective competition, and so far the government has been A-Ok with that.
You also miss the part about the capital markets being effective closed after the bubble burst closing that window. [snip]
And yet, I don't know of any location in the US with two cable operators.
[snip] Everywhere that had enough paying-humans-per fiber-mile, so primarily the Northeast corridor (Metro DC through Metro Boston). Parts of the SF Bay, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit... google "cable overbuilder" (RCN, WOW and several others). Nontrivial capital is required for the build-and-maintain of physical plant, so most all have shrunk since the bubble popping. Cheers, Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE
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