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Joe Chung wrote:

>
> Long distance rates have been subjected to competition, and
> serious competition only recently.  They used to be higher when Ma
> Bell was one big company.
>
> There are many more services out there where prices have not come
> down, even in the face of "competition", like college tuition,
> legal fees, or medical costs.
>
> In the case of a monopolistic cable TV company, a better
> comparison would be the telephone, gas, electricity company,
> i.e. other monopolistic utilities that provide a continuous (and
> sometimes essential) service.
>
> As for the TV and computer itself, electronic items have been
> subjected to both the forces of great leaps in advancement and
> steep competition over the years.
>
> And yet there are prices of mundane consumer items, like stamps,
> grocery bills, haircuts, etc. that counters the technology
> examples.
>
> Maybe the dish TV companies will give some serious competition to
> the Cable companies, and then the prices may come down.
>

  It is already happening. I pay less money for more channels with Dish
Network compared to AT&T cable. In 6 months I have had one outage
lasting all of two minutes. The one time that
I had a problem with the receiver I got a live person on the phone in
under a  minute who walked me through the steps of reprogramming the
box.
  When AT&T calls to try to retrieve my business I start naming the
channels that they don't have but dish does.
  By the way, the picture quality is much better than cable.



>
>
> Either way you look at it, your Cable Internet rate is going up
> to about $60; you can either buy Cable TV with that, or not.
>
> It's no different than if my magazine subscription rate went up,
> but they offer to sell me a subscription to a second magazine as
> a bribe to keep the first rate the same.  In the end, my out of
> pocket expense is the same.
>
> I'm not saying what they're doing is right or good for the
> consumer, but that the end-result, the raising of rates, is not
> that uncommon.
>
> -jc

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