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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.tv,net.legal
Subject: Re: Can CATV fees relate to number of TV's connected?
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Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 18:29:48 EDT
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> The telephone company DOES charge for each telephone you have (as
> long as they know about it).  Perhaps what was meant was that
> they don't charge per telephone OUTLET.

But they only charge you for telephones you RENT (remember the old days
when you couldn't own a phone?).  I assume cable companies don't rent
you your television.

When you are charged additionally for more outlets (correct me if I'm
wrong), you are paying for the installation (one time) and the wiring.
With a CATV connection, your wiring up to your TV is supplied as part of
your charge, and it would seem that any wiring beyond that that you connect
to different sets (or recorders) is your own business.

NONE of this is to be construed as definitive, and I'd sure like to know
whether such logic applies in a legal sense.  (Often legality and logic
are disjoint sets.)
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