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kcr

(15,317 posts)
3. Yep. Tell people they'll bundle it in packages, just like they did with channels.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 04:56 PM
Nov 2017

Net Neutrality is not the best descriptive, that's for sure. Net Bundling. The Cable companies want to BUNDLE your internet!

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
5. That business model is a melting ice cube
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 05:12 PM
Nov 2017

These republican turds can roadblock things all they want...
it doesn't mean anyone will actually buy it.
Free commerce will find a way. Fuck 'em.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
7. That doesn't matter.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 07:07 PM
Nov 2017

People understand what cable bundling is, and that is essentially what will happen to the internet. The actual health of the cable industry is irrelevant.

Also not sure how free commerce will save the day, here. What will people do, buy their internet somewhere else? How, exactly?

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
9. Exactly... people will buy their Internet somewhere else.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 07:34 PM
Nov 2017

It's happening right now with unbundling and cord-cutting, and Cable Co's are powerless to stop it.
If Providers don't have what people want, they'll buy what they want from someone else.
And if Cable Co's don't provide it, some other enterprising person will.

Don't get me wrong, I'm am 1000% for Net Neutrality... but no matter what
Republicans do... they can't force consumers to buy their bullshit products.

hunter

(38,317 posts)
6. Boycott cable television. Cut the cord.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 05:32 PM
Nov 2017

Their business model is obsolete, but they are fighting like hell to maintain it, buying every politician and regulator they can.

My television plays DVDs and Netflix. That's all it does. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast.

The problem with subscription television is that part of your subscription pays for despicable politics.

shanti

(21,675 posts)
8. They've lost million$
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 07:11 PM
Nov 2017

from people cutting the cord and going to streaming. People are getting their teevee entertainment for a super low price now. You think they don't want that money back? This is how they plan to get it.

Bastards.

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