yes but you also have to have
a single line for DSL, correct?
Depending on your area,
etc..will also depend on price and speed.
You can't really compare a big
market area like I live in to a small secluded area like where my sister lives.
There are less people, thereby less demand. It costs alot more for cable
companies to run lines etc..in small areas where they may only get a handful of
customers.
There are alot of
variables.
Just like cable pricing.. it's
a luxury. And as much as everyone likes to blame Comcast or AT&T, etc for
price gouging..do you even realize how many companies Comcast has to pay to use
their services in order to give the customers those services?
See, hubby working for the
cable company has learned me alot.. <grin>
Not only does Comcast have to
pay to *rent/use* HBO, SHO, Cinemax, etc... they also, in many cases, have to
pay PER subscriber to each of those companies.
So if they have 1 million
subscribers (which is an extremely low estimate..LOL), they would have to pay
SHO per each of those million subscribers to use their service.
Plus cable companies are
always upgrading to newer systems, products and services. They just did all the
fiber upgrade here several years ago. When my phone bill company (Verizon)
raises my prices, I'm not getting some new equipment or better caller ID. It's
the same service I had, they just want a pay raise.
If you think of it in
simplistic terms; a basic phone bill here with no call waiting, ID, etc runs
about 35 -40 bucks a month.
Basic cable service with no
extras is about the same here. I don't see the big deal. if you want the
luxuries, you pay for them. Just like if you want Guess jeans instead of
Wal-Mart brand;you pay.
Granted my cable is free
because hubby works there. If he didn't work there, we'd have basic and that's
it. Mainly because I rarely watch the movie channels anyway. My kids watch the
kid movies. But they generally get them on DVD as soon as they come out
anyway.
But I don't think paying 40
bucks for basic cable is that high or a big deal.
My cable was out during
Hurricane Izzy. It had been over a year or longer before that. I don't think
that's bad at all. AND it was always during power outages as well. So can't
really blame cable for that since they run off the power companies.
That's the only benefit, IMO,
of satellite because it's in the air and nothing can really affect
it.
area is definitely a big point because i think it was like 300 channels for digital in illinois and we had 49 cable channels here its 700 on digital and 75 cable channels someplace else it could be more or less
________________________________ Changes to your subscription (unsubs, nomail, digest) can be made by going to http://sandboxmail.net/mailman/listinfo/sndbox_sandboxmail.net |
________________________________
Changes to your subscription (unsubs, nomail, digest) can be made by going to http://sandboxmail.net/mailman/listinfo/sndbox_sandboxmail.net