HOW GOOD ARE GOOD OLD BOYS FOR THE ECONOMY?
AT&T representative's attempt to get city support for a statewide cable franchise bill that would remove the power of local municipalities to establish and enforce regulations for their cable systems, and put it in the hands of the state, FAILS.That in turn prompted the board to approve a resolution reiterating its opposition to the bill and sending copies to the county's legislative delegation, along with letters explaining their position. "This legislation will necessitate a state franchising process and diminish local authority to negotiate much needed (public education channels) and cable television service to schools and libraries," the letter states, adding, "Statewide franchise agreements will complicate the market and inhibit local monitoring of franchise fee payments and audits."
In this bloggers opinion, I do agree that the local authorities have every right to protect our interests however, I have a "gut feeling" they are protecting their pockets instead. It is absolutely clear that in fact if AT&T came in, it would cause our cable bills to drop due to healthy competition.
So to spin this and make AT&T look bad, the locals use common scare tactics to make people afraid AT&T will rule the world and force their children to watch bad television when in fact, all the local authorities would have to do is execute revisions in the documentations which would allow them to keep their local authority on incoming competitors like AT&T.
My brother works for a local telephone company in South Carolina and they do EXACTLY the same thing (not my brother, he plows cable). They (the local phone company in SC) have the entire area, which means they have the entire market with ZERO competition which means they can offer whatever they want, whenever they want and they can charge whatever they want and NO ONE WINS BUT THEM!
OK, that's my 2 cents.....:)
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