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Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 25 Aug 2005 21:47:13 -0000
I once spoke to a construction manager at comcast for their network buildouts. With my local township, they need to have 20 homes per linear mile along the route to justify a build.Given it is Comcast, it appears that they are not interested. I know that some companies will do it if you pay for part of the construction.
Someone didn't do a very good job of negotiating their cable franchise. Around here (Tompkins County in upstate NY), the franchises with Time-Warner all say that they have to build on request anywhere there are 10 houses per mile, and at lower densities if residents will pay the difference. The local manager said they'd often do it even if it's not quite 10 because they don't want to lose customers to satellite, and I can imagine their pain when the 10th house is built, demands cable, and the other 9 already have DirecTV. R's, John
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- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger, (continued)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Gary E. Miller (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Daniel Senie (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Michael Painter (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Lewis Butler (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joe Abley (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Sean Figgins (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Jared Mauch (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Sean Figgins (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger John Levine (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger John Levine (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Jared Mauch (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 26)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Daniel Golding (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joe Abley (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joel Jaeggli (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Simon Waters (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Randy Bush (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Lewis Butler (Aug 25)