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Posted by Timothy Daniels on April 21, 2007, 2:47 pm
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"Whomever" wrote:
> I'm not so sure that's true of all providers. Here in Tampa
> Bright House is responsible for all the wiring, all the way to
> the attachment to the modem or tv. They ran the cable for
> me from the pole to the junction on the house and then up
> thru the attic, down the wall and to the cable modem.
If they supply the parts and labor for the in-house wiring,
they can probably legally retrieve it and/or prevent you from
using it for satellite reception if you should close your account
with them. Here in L.A., our condo HOA chose to hire our
own cablers to put in the cable when we heard how the cable
company's yahoos were going to route the cables. 15 years
later, when dbs satellite was introduced, the cable company
wanted us to sign a 20-year exclusive use agreement in return
for a cheap bulk account. But, we reasoned that no such "gift"
is really free, and we turned them down. We eventually found
out that they had realized that *we* owned our cabling and they
wanted to block us from using it for satellite. Then, 5 yrs later,
we added a satellite system - that uses the same cabling. We
wouldn't have been able to do that if the cable company had
installed our cabling.
*TimDaniels*
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Posted by $Bill on April 21, 2007, 5:59 pm
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Timothy Daniels wrote:
>
> If they supply the parts and labor for the in-house wiring,
> they can probably legally retrieve it and/or prevent you from
> using it for satellite reception if you should close your account
> with them.
I doubt that very much - as far as I'm concerned that's donated cabling
if they didn't charge you for it and if they charged you for it, then it's
obviously yours. They are entitled to get their boxes (set top, modem, etc)
back, but that's it.
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Posted by Timothy Daniels on April 21, 2007, 6:42 pm
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> Timothy Daniels wrote:
>>
>> If they supply the parts and labor for the in-house wiring,
>> they can probably legally retrieve it and/or prevent you from
>> using it for satellite reception if you should close your account
>> with them.
>
> I doubt that very much - as far as I'm concerned that's donated
> cabling if they didn't charge you for it and if they charged you
> for it, then it's obviously yours. They are entitled to get their
> boxes (set top, modem, etc) back, but that's it.
What's the legal difference between the "boxes" and the cabling?
I recently stopped the installation for a cable TV/Internet account
because the idiot installer had broken into our condo association's
OTA cabling system to facilitate a room-to-room cable extension.
His supervisor told him to rip out all the cabling that he had put in
and to vacate the premises. Eventually, his company made the
supervisor come out and repair the damage to our OTA cabling,
but it wasn't until Time Warner had established that *we* owned
all of our cabling. Apparently, the legal department has advised
Time Warner that what cables they put in they are free to break
into and rip out.
*TimDaniels*
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Posted by $Bill on April 22, 2007, 12:19 am
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> What's the legal difference between the "boxes" and the cabling?
You're renting the boxes (set top, modem, etc).
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Posted by Timothy Daniels on April 22, 2007, 3:43 am
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> Timothy Daniels wrote:
>>
>> What's the legal difference between the "boxes" and
>> the cabling?
>
> You're renting the boxes (set top, modem, etc).
Not I. My modem is my own. And when I went in to
Time Warner to get one of their modems, they handed me
a modem without any charge, and no charge for the modem
appeared on my bill. Use of their modem is part of my
subscription, and they could just as well argue that the use
of their cabling (if they had put it in) was also part of my
subscription.
*TimDaniels*
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