>Cable companies have to meet thousands of standards to do business in >each municipality. (it is even worse as the local kickbacks that >have to be paid - not illegal they are called franchise fees)
The problem was allowing local companies to be rolled up into huge conglomerates. That caused a problem that did not previously exist and then the greedy corporations that caused the problem started to bellyache about regulation. A locally owned utility following local standards would have no such problem. And I bet the local citizens in most localities would be better served (and of course there would be a few bad apples that greedy corporations would hold up as exemplary.) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
