Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 12 Jun 91 20:08:26 GMT From: Nick Sayer Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: CATV Company Rate Comparisons Message-ID: Organization: The Duck Pond, Stockton, CA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 456, Message 6 of 9 Lines: 28 We have a monopoly here in Stockton. Continental Cable charges $19.54 a month minimum, and has 34 clear channels, 4 pay channels and one pay-per-view channel, but it's on two pieces of coax, which makes cable-ready equipment capable of only 'seeing' half the channels at a time. A converter to solve this problem costs $2/mo, a remote control is another $1, the first pay channel is about $10, and additional pay channels have decreasing costs. Needless to say, I am not happy with this situation but, of course, I live in a condo where no antennas are allowed, so there is no alternative. When (and if :-) ) I graduate from college, I'm gonna get a dish. Now if there was only a way to get phone service without having to get service from an RBOC. Speaking of dishes, has anyone heard from the Congressional inquiry concerning predatory pricing practices of cable programming suppliers? I was watching C-SPAN some time ago, and ran across such a hearing. One of those testifying said the average cable company paid $2 per subscriber per month for a package which satellite and wireless-cable providers paid an average of $10 per subsciber per month. Nick Sayer mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us N6QQQ 209-952-5347 (Telebit)