Comments on: Comcast's global ambitions

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:29:17 +0000

Eideard,

I could not agree more - so many channels and nothing to watch. You end up defaulting to about ten or eleven channels. USA, HBO and Showtime along with ESPN and BBC. That's it for me. COmcast can charge $25 for those channels and I couldn't care less about everything else they do

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:27:18 +0000

Dave,

be careful what you wish for. Just saying - take it from a Comcast customer.

By: Confluence: ezmo

Confluence: ezmo — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:21:44 +0000

Comcast's global ambitions

For the longest time, it was American phone companies that went globe trotting, trying to add international holdings to their portfolio. Now there is word that Comcast might be getting its jets warmed up. The City A.M....

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:20:17 +0000

As long as this American cable company invests in the network and gives us the service cable TV is capable of they can have it. The current lot in charge are a bunch of muppets who have managed to p*ss everyone off in the few months they have been in charge

By: PJA

PJA — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:00:50 +0000

I vote for a la carte pricing on channels. Do we NEED to keep supporting all 58 Discovery channels?

By: Eideard

Eideard — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:42:31 +0000

Oh, how I wish, how I wish, these captains of industry might spend of my hard-earned money on reaming the pipes between me and the rest of the Internet World.

It really ain't a lot. It would just take a little commitment to offering service, say, comparable to the average backwater ISP in Sweden.