Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jan 11, 2009 3:45:44 GMT -6
Time Warner is the worst service provider of any type of service I've ever run across.
But unfortunately, cable TV and internet services are allowed complete monopolies in the areas they serve. Time Warner owns the internet monopoly in my own area, having bought the monopoly from Comcast several years ago. (Who bought it from someone else who owned it several years earlier.)
There is one silver lining to the Time Warner cloud. It made me realize it really was possible to be worse than Comcast. (Something I never would have dreamed possible 4 years ago.)
Time Warner began an even steeper downward slide from it's already falling trajectory over a month ago. At that time, they begrudgingly acknowledged having a known problem, and that they were "working on it." Whatever the problem is, it has not been fixed. (Unless the "problem" that they were referring to is the inability to jam still more advertisements down their subscribers' throats — enough so management could continue receiving undeserved multi-million-dollar bonuses.
Since there is an absolute monopoly of cable servers in any area, they should be nationalized. The main economic benefits to private ownership and free market — better & cheaper service resulting from free competition among multiple firms competing for the same market — are not being served with only 1 provider in the market.
With only 1 firm, there's no price competition, no quality competition, and no innovative competition. There is only price fixing, quality declines, and consumer exploitation. In these monopolistic/collusionary cases, the government could easily provide a better service at a lower price.
And there could easily be multiple competitors for every cable market in Southern California. But there is only one provider per area, due to anti-competitive, monopolistic policies of the major cable providers — in collusion with local & state governments.
It's time to either break up the cable company cartel, or have them taken over by the government.
The government couldn't possibly do any worse.
But unfortunately, cable TV and internet services are allowed complete monopolies in the areas they serve. Time Warner owns the internet monopoly in my own area, having bought the monopoly from Comcast several years ago. (Who bought it from someone else who owned it several years earlier.)
There is one silver lining to the Time Warner cloud. It made me realize it really was possible to be worse than Comcast. (Something I never would have dreamed possible 4 years ago.)
Time Warner began an even steeper downward slide from it's already falling trajectory over a month ago. At that time, they begrudgingly acknowledged having a known problem, and that they were "working on it." Whatever the problem is, it has not been fixed. (Unless the "problem" that they were referring to is the inability to jam still more advertisements down their subscribers' throats — enough so management could continue receiving undeserved multi-million-dollar bonuses.
Since there is an absolute monopoly of cable servers in any area, they should be nationalized. The main economic benefits to private ownership and free market — better & cheaper service resulting from free competition among multiple firms competing for the same market — are not being served with only 1 provider in the market.
With only 1 firm, there's no price competition, no quality competition, and no innovative competition. There is only price fixing, quality declines, and consumer exploitation. In these monopolistic/collusionary cases, the government could easily provide a better service at a lower price.
And there could easily be multiple competitors for every cable market in Southern California. But there is only one provider per area, due to anti-competitive, monopolistic policies of the major cable providers — in collusion with local & state governments.
It's time to either break up the cable company cartel, or have them taken over by the government.
The government couldn't possibly do any worse.