Are we talking about a leveraged buyout, here? Someone please put this restructuring, or secession, into some kind of logical perspective, using commonly available corporate finance instruments for this sort of thing.
In any event, for either party to secede abruptly while the stew is only half cooked would be tantamount to inducing trauma into the patient, at this stage. No, I think that once a divorce is decided on, then they may as well cut all ties and go the entire mile alone. I'm still a firm believer in a third overlay to the neighborhood, and maybe stringing fiber along the power companies' rights of way is the way to go, after all. It's either that or dragging this outdated legacy technology through countless additional future overhauls and upgrade cycles, always behind the 8-ball by some order of magnitude.
Let's not forget that cable bandwidth is merely a resource derivative of a franchised service offering, and as such it is bound to local franchising terms... the FCC, and whomever else, notwithstanding.
And adding 'net access as a service extension which is supported by the power companies rights of way would not add significantly to aesthetic concerns, nor would it be plagued by predatory pole rights pricing by the other incumbents, because the power companies are already there.
Anyone care to "let's make a deal?" You have to know that this is being discussed on some level, elsewhere. |
