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Question: Should cable TV be required to be provided "a la carte"?
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
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« on: June 27, 2007, 10:07:06 PM »

a la carte should be required as an option only for those cable/satellite companies that also own channels.  If a cable company couldn't force its new channel into the homes of its subscribers they might actually have to make it good enough for people to want on its own.  That said, a la carte should never be the only option.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2007, 04:00:07 PM »

If there's more than one company in a municipality, then there will be wires for different companies all over the place and it would be a mess. People still have the choice of Satellite TV, too.
That argument is flawed & there doesn't seem to be a "mess of wires" with competition for providing phone service.

That's because the government forces the owners of the current wires to carry the calls of competitors.  Back in the early days of the telephone, some cities had multiple carriers.  Indeed, some companies had multiple telephones so they could be connected to customers on the different services.
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