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[QUOTE=&quot;MrPogi, post: 153032, member: 5542&quot;]Jim, consider that just about every pay TV service (cable, satellite, or phone companies) requires consumers to rent some sort of proprietary box for each TV set. Rental of these boxes has become a big profit center for these corporations. While there are other options besides cable for TV for some, cable providers are the only choice for most users of high speed internet - and they take advantage of that internet monopoly by offering lower prices to those who &quot;bundle&quot;. I know several people who take cable TV and cable phone just to get a good price for internet. The government has been in the business of protecting consumers for many years, but has done a very poor job of it recently (Witness the lack of oversight that brought about &quot;The Great Recession&quot;)This is the same FCC that is also forcing broadcast TV to surrender their channel allocations so those OUR public airwaves can be sold to private corporations - a very anti-consumer move.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="MrPogi, post: 153032, member: 5542"]Jim, consider that just about every pay TV service (cable, satellite, or phone companies) requires consumers to rent some sort of proprietary box for each TV set. Rental of these boxes has become a big profit center for these corporations. While there are other options besides cable for TV for some, cable providers are the only choice for most users of high speed internet - and they take advantage of that internet monopoly by offering lower prices to those who "bundle". I know several people who take cable TV and cable phone just to get a good price for internet. The government has been in the business of protecting consumers for many years, but has done a very poor job of it recently (Witness the lack of oversight that brought about "The Great Recession") This is the same FCC that is also forcing broadcast TV to surrender their channel allocations so those [I][B]OUR[/B][/I] public airwaves can be sold to private corporations - a very anti-consumer move.[/QUOTE]

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