Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid

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From: Roy
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:30

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On 3/24/2010 3:43 PM, DanS wrote:
> ...
>
> Back to the Comcast issue.......what you are seeing is a
> combination of 1) a commercial for-profit entity (Comcast) not
> spending money to upgrade what many have called an antiquated
> cable system in San Jose.....and 2) people accepting the fact
> that the service sucks, but still buying it anyway.
>
> Where's the initiative for Comcast to improve anything, if
> people buy it anyway ?
>
> Now if Comcast lost 50% of it's broadband subscribers, then it
> would have no choice but to improve.
>

Its the same reason most people run Windows :-)

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