This would likely not cross into anti-trust territory. Besides, they have tried it before...
http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/11/news/companies/comcast_disney/
Large cable companies are running out of small mom & pop providers to buy, and have amassed huge cash reserves, which they would like to find something to do with, one of which is to buy a large content provider, or possibly (though they keep denying the rumors), buy a wireless provider. Most of the wireless providers in the U.S. are too large to be taken over by even the largest cable companies, though.
Additionally, many MDUs bundle basic cable service with tenant's rent; these bulk agreements with the cable companies are often priced well under advertised rates (often less than half what one would pay outside of the agreement). If these contracts are not allowed for many larger apartment complexes, the rates that the tenants pay would go up drastically, not down (at least from the company that has ownership of the infrastructure in the building).
And slightly off topic, our legal system does a pretty good job. The only change I would like to see done is to make plantiffs pay all court costs/legal fees if the defendant was proven to be non guilty in a civil matter. That would fix so many problems. Really? So I sue some fast food company after a cup of unreasonably hot coffee burns me horribly. The company spends $6m on legal fees, and, in the course of the proceedings, it is discovered that the person who heated and served the coffee had been fired the day before and was not an employee at the time, and therefore, the company is found not guilty.
So now I have to cover the company's legal fees? Such a rule would likely result in a bit of trepidation on the part of individuals to sue any entity that would incur large legal fees.
One thing to note is that the main reason ala-carte pricing would likely be expensive for the cable providers is due to the volume of service calls that would occur from customers wanting to constantly change their channel lineups (this happens already; when the Sopranos came out, a huge number of people picked up HBO for just a few months and then cancelled). If *all* channels were available ala-carte, the cable companies would be flooded with people adding and dropping channels constantly.
This was answered in the piece; the researchers found that the baby's cells were indeed making it through the placenta wall, and were not being attacked by the mother's immune system. The researchers found this counter-intuitive as well.
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This would likely not cross into anti-trust territory. Besides, they have tried it before... http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/11/news/companies/comcast_disney/ Large cable companies are running out of small mom & pop providers to buy, and have amassed huge cash reserves, which they would like to find something to do with, one of which is to buy a large content provider, or possibly (though they keep denying the rumors), buy a wireless provider. Most of the wireless providers in the U.S. are too large to be taken over by even the largest cable companies, though.
Additionally, many MDUs bundle basic cable service with tenant's rent; these bulk agreements with the cable companies are often priced well under advertised rates (often less than half what one would pay outside of the agreement). If these contracts are not allowed for many larger apartment complexes, the rates that the tenants pay would go up drastically, not down (at least from the company that has ownership of the infrastructure in the building).
One thing to note is that the main reason ala-carte pricing would likely be expensive for the cable providers is due to the volume of service calls that would occur from customers wanting to constantly change their channel lineups (this happens already; when the Sopranos came out, a huge number of people picked up HBO for just a few months and then cancelled). If *all* channels were available ala-carte, the cable companies would be flooded with people adding and dropping channels constantly.
This was answered in the piece; the researchers found that the baby's cells were indeed making it through the placenta wall, and were not being attacked by the mother's immune system. The researchers found this counter-intuitive as well.