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Why does it matter to Comcast whether I watch on one, two, or fifteen TVs in my house? It doesn't cost them any more money (aside from the initial in-house cabl
by fred256 10y ago
Why does it matter to Comcast whether I watch on one, two, or fifteen TVs in my house? It doesn't cost them any more money (aside from the initial in-house cabling and splitters)
- chimeracoder 10y ago> Why does it matter to Comcast whether I watch on one, two, or fifteen TVs in my house? It doesn't cost them any more money (aside from the initial in-house cabling and splitters) Because it's something that you value, and they have the ability to charge for it. So they do. It has nothing to do with their own cost function. In an uncompetitive market (which largely describes the residential cable market, at least to a first-order approximation), there is no pressure for the price to converge to the average cost[0] of delivering the service. [0] economic cost - ie, including opportunity costs
- jandrese 10y agoTL;DR: Because they can.