Mandated? No, no one in the guvmint told them to merge. XM and Sirius had
to fight to get that. I suppose it would have been better that one or both
of them went out of business instead, right?
You have blinders on. Within the very same email you confirm what I
wrote. You words are...
Only 4
To restate your words: The government decreed that there would be an
oligopoly with only two players. They kept other players out. They
created an $80,000,000 barrier to entry.
No kidding. I didn't disagree with you. Maybe the FCC shouldn't be trying
to make money by shaking down media
It's not a monopoly. It's one entertainment option among many. Saying that
XM/Sirius is a monopoly is akin to arguing that WAMU is a monopoly because
it's the only station that can broadcast at 88.5 MHz in the DC area.
Calling their market segment entertainment option is disingenuous. You
Calling their market segment entertainment option is disingenuous.
You
might as well call its market segment business entity. Sure we have
plenty of those.
Calling it a monopoly is even more disingenuous. See your list below to
see their competition and tell me how a single satellite company
In today's news we see the DOJ declaring that merging the only two
satellite broadcasters into one would not be anticompetitive. I guess
their logic is that a duopoly has been so anticompetitive that a
monopoly
could not be much worse?
Yet one more example of why the USA is so far behind
I agree with you.
Where I live it is country or gospel all the time.
Not what I want to listen too.
Thank God for PBS, but even that gets old sometimes.
Stewart
At 06:53 AM 3/26/2008, you wrote:
I see you're using National Association of Broadcasters logic: they don't
compete against us,
The biggest difference between France (Any European country) and the
US in comparisons, is plums versus watermelons.
The density of people in France is much higher than the density of
our population.
When you get away from the coasts, the density is much less.
This handicaps any company
I like your math Eric, it coincides with the math the others have been doing.
Makes complete horse sense. :-)
Lets just look at density per sq/mi.
My state AL 84.83
Spain 231
France 295
La 102.59
Tx 79.6
The whole USA 80 (About 1/4 of Frances or Spains)
Yup makes perfect sense to me!
Makes complete horse sense. :-)
Except you have 10 more people per square mile in France than I
do. Maybe they were on vacation when my numbers were collected.
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There's plenty of pie to go around but the broadband Internet providers
are greedy--and they're lying so they can gouge their customers. Mostly
they're afraid of becoming irrelevant, or obsolete when a new upstart
gives us better deals at half the price.
In Europe and Asia the speeds keep
The biggest difference between France (Any
European country) and the US in comparisons, is plums versus watermelons.
The density of people in France is much higher
than the density of our population.
When you get away from the coasts, the density is much less.
This handicaps any company
Why is the United States _so_far_behind_ in speeds, choices, prices???
Time Warner is now regressing to metered service in Texas, just like the
old-time metered dialup. American consumers don't know enough to demand
better/more/cheaper service? Or there's just not enough competition,
instead
Neither one is making money as it is.
Both of them had exclusive agreements with some content which made
choosing impossible,. (I for one have held off until this time)
Secondly they are competing against free radio as it is.
Why pay for radio when you can get it for free. Plus with the
Again Europe has a much higher population density than the US. Not
fully comparable. (Plus their regulations and rules are different)
That's the point: our regulations and rules should be more like the
rest of the world's.
I think it's that congress, the administration, and big business
I agree. The same thing is going on with the US economy. It's been
apparent to me for some time that what the US is doing isn't working for
the country as a whole but government won't change direction because of
the big business lobby and its focus on self interest/ short term
corporate
The density of people in France is much higher than the density of our
population.
Americans are denser. One would have to be pretty dense to keep voting
for the same corrupt pols as they give away more and more of the country
to the utlta-rich. The French did get it right fixing a similar
Eric? Why so much for so little?
Any way I answer that is bound to reveal me for the greedy capitalist
that I am.
The short answer is labor costs, regulatory requirements, and network
maintenance overhead. If I can drive down any or all of those costs I
can increase profits and lower prices.
Tom if you are willing to live under their laws that is OK by me.
By the way all the personal intrusion laws you rail against are very
European in nature!!!
Stewart
At 05:31 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
The density of people in France is much higher than the density of our
population.
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