Thread: Cable merger revives telecom sector calls for access to network
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Old 10-10-2005, 13:43   #23
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Re: Cable merger revives telecom sector calls for access to network
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Originally Posted by BBKing
Hmm - sounds like the same technology with different branding. Not true competition at all, which implies the same company having control over the cost of everything from billing through to the cable into your house. This is the limitation everyone who's tried to add competition to a network has eventually hit - the mark of the wise man is that one who's realised this early enough.

* This is a core point of what isn't becoming widely known as BBKingism.
Yes, the billing will appear on the same bill, the pricing does differ per VoD stream, so TCM has a cheaper movies than the just out of Cinema Vod stream and in the middle is the HBO streams.

At the moment on the NTL platform they would all be bundled into one large channel 0 though.
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