Cable Bill Dead, Chattanooga Invites AT&T To Provide Video Service

The very moment something other than Comcast highspeed internet is offered to chattanooga/hixson area is the exact moment I will be on the phone signing up for anything other than Comcast highspeed internet. They act like they are the only show in town because they are...the representatives are rude and at time lazy. It is possible to get three different answers in the space of 10 minutes about what may be wrong with your service. Favorite answer seems to be we'll assign a CF blah blah blah so you can pay someone to come out and look at it. I hate Comcast, but I like highspeed internet. I would pay more to try someone else's service and also just to encourage any competition to Comcast.

This is an unfair tax. Why should the cigarette smokers be the only ones targeted, are they outcast and bad people because they smoke? When the state got the lottery voted in they said it was for schools and scholarships what happened to that money? Something is wrong with this picture.

We definitely need competition...right now Comcast's customer service is terrible and they have no reason to try to improve it since they have a monopoly over the industry. I think some healthy competition would provide jobs, lower prices and maybe force Comcast to improve their horrendous customer service.

The TBI and FBI ought to be investigating why the cable competition bill was voted down. It sounds like some politicians are being paid by ComCast to keep out any competition and to preserve their monopoly. Also, where is the U.S. Supreme Court on this issue? They have stopped other monopolies. Why don't they stop Comcast!

This is a bad move for the sate of Tennesse. I would assume that now AT&T will only try to enter the major markets of Tennessee and leave the rural markets alone. By major, I mean Chattanooga(hopefully) and larger. I really can't understand the stupidity of the lawmakers in the house. This bill would have only brought money and jobs to Tennessee. All states around our state have approved a bill like this. I think that there is something crooked about this. This really deserves a second look into why the lawmakers decided to not allow for competition. The PEOPLE wanted it. It's the greasy palms of the local governments that didn't.