Screw Fox Screw Fox Screw Fox!!!!!!!!!

[Gunslinger]

I'd gladly pay for the NFL Sunday Ticket, except that it's impossible for me to get Dish Network in my apartment. We have exactly 1 choice for cable/internet provider, and it doesn't even carry the NFL network. Aren't monopolies fun?

 

[Tiberius]

I'd gladly pay for the NFL Sunday Ticket, except that it's impossible for me to get Dish Network in my apartment. We have exactly 1 choice for cable/internet provider, and it doesn't even carry the NFL network. Aren't monopolies fun?

The FCC may have something to say about that.

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/1998/nrcb8023.html

Do you have a balcony or patio or some similar area for your exclusive use from which you could see the satellite? Then you should be good to go (EDIT: if I'm reading this right, anyway).

 

[werk]

I'd gladly pay for the NFL Sunday Ticket, except that it's impossible for me to get Dish Network in my apartment. We have exactly 1 choice for cable/internet provider, and it doesn't even carry the NFL network. Aren't monopolies fun?

It's only a monopoli if the provider is keeping other providers out.

Lack of choice does not a monopoli make.

 

[Aurora]

Heck, I think she's older then I am

Think again!

 

[Bubbalicious]

I'd gladly pay for the NFL Sunday Ticket, except that it's impossible for me to get Dish Network in my apartment. We have exactly 1 choice for cable/internet provider, and it doesn't even carry the NFL network. Aren't monopolies fun?

That was a big problem around here about 5-8 years ago. Alot of apartment complexes were ILLEGALLY telling tenants that they could not get satellite systems and had to stay with cable. Funny thing is, they were getting kickbacks from the cable companies for freezing out satellite providers in their buildings.

THIS IS ILLEGAL!!!!!

(IT'S A FEDERAL LAW!!!!)

Landlords cannot restrict your choice. They can put some reasonable restrictions on where you place your dish, but they can't even make that very difficult. If you have a balcony, you can mount a small board to the corner of your railing for stability and mount a dish. If you don't have a balcony, then your landlord is REQUIRED to allow dishes on the side of buildings or on the roof. If you have a balcony, but they try to force you to put your dish on the roof (usually so it's not an "eyesore"), then they are REQUIRED to run the cable to your apartment if it is a longer than usual run.

 

[Bubbalicious]

Think again!

Uh, Aurora...

Crothian was at Ohio State just a couple of years ago. I think he's only, like, 23 or 24.

 

[drothgery]

Landlords cannot restrict your choice. They can put some reasonable restrictions on where you place your dish, but they can't even make that very difficult.

Err... he didn't say that his landlord was preventing him from getting sattelite, just that he couldn't. It's my undertanding that in many areas with a high density of apartment complexes, it's impossible to get line of sight to the sattelite, so a dish will not work anywhere you could reasonably put it.

 

[kenobi65]

Err... he didn't say that his landlord was preventing him from getting sattelite, just that he couldn't. It's my undertanding that in many areas with a high density of apartment complexes, it's impossible to get line of sight to the sattelite, so a dish will not work anywhere you could reasonably put it.

Could be the case. Some friends of mine, who live just off of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, wanted to get a dish, but a 40-story apartment building was just behind their little 3-story building, and completely obscured their view of the southern sky. Without that view, even the most lenient landlord can't get you a dish.

Even simply having an apartment on the north side of your building would be problematic.

 

[Tiberius]

Err... he didn't say that his landlord was preventing him from getting sattelite, just that he couldn't. It's my undertanding that in many areas with a high density of apartment complexes, it's impossible to get line of sight to the sattelite, so a dish will not work anywhere you could reasonably put it.

True enough, but the complaints about a service provider monopoly indicated to me that he was having problems with permissions rather than LOS or similar issues.

 

[Gunslinger]

As far as I know there is only one company that currently services our building, though I don't know whether that's because they have some kind of deal with the building or because no one else feels like competing. I haven't seen anyone else in my building with a dish, so I'm not sure what the status of that is. I suppose the best option would be to call around and find out whether they're actually doing something they aren't supposed to be or not.