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Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps by whistlerbrk on Sunday February 16, 2014 @11:50AM (#7248192)
Ethics is the point, not ROI.
Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps by JWLong on Sunday February 16, 2014 @01:07PM (#7248485)
And this is the lesson that Capitalism teaches: if you do not like the ethics of another company, you are free to create a competing business model and hurt their ROI (if their current customers agree with you).
Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 16, 2014 @02:27PM (#7248826)
Or lobby your local municipality to revoke their franchisee agreement and fund/rollout municipal fiber, provided at a reasonable cost.
Re:Busting Comcast's $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps by sp332 on Sunday February 16, 2014 @02:13PM (#7248778)
You need a free(r) market for that. Comcast gets franchise agreements with each municipality, and there is no competition for cable TV or internet.