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From: tronix@polari.UUCP (David Daniel)
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Subject: Re: Quick Summary of Actions Taken at FCC Meeting, 8 Feb 90
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Date: 10 Feb 90 02:42:50 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 89, message 11 of 14


Point #2 caught my interest.

I had wondered if the cable franchise (read: Monopoly) would be
addressed within my lifetime.  I had thought that the easiest way to
allow the consumer a choice in cable providers would be for each
franchize to encode their signals to proprietary boxes and to
interconnect all cable systens within a region.  The FCC porposal
sounds like the same thing, only different.  I wonder if the customer
box in that proposal would be receiving the transmission directly or
what.  

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