Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cable TV Companies Enter the Telephone Business Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 11:17:00 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 185, Message 3 of 8 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu Robert Jacobson writes: > I don't see cable rushing to hook up the Aunt Minnies, or you, > or me. No, you will not. As a matter of fact, the City of San Jose had to bring considerable pressure to bear on the local cable company to wire significant sections of town. Why the resistance? There are large areas of San Jose that have underground utilities. After Gill Cable had wired up all the easy, pole to pole installations the company really dragged its feet about dealing with those people who wanted service in places where trenches needed to be dug. If you recall the early days of MCI and SPC (Sprint) and some of the later ones such as SBS, the OCCs were only really interested in 1) business customers and 2) heavily called (high profit) routes such as LA<-->San Francisco. Later on, these companies made the service somewhat more universal. But even today, OCCs contract with AT&T to reach really out of the way places. On SPC, you used to get a recording telling you that the (out of the way) place you were attempting to reach was "not on the SPRINT network". John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !