What does it take to start a cable company? Do you need to buy a frequency or something?
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You have to buy infrastructure to carry the signal and you have to buy the licenses to all the channels you will carry to broadcast them.
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Sounds like a good idea :-)\n\nYou need to develop a business plan and market it to suitable investors. I would imagine that people already involved in television would be the logical place. Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc......
980735
No but that may be the price your cable company wants you to pay for the facility.\nNothing's for nothing, mate,
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My hubby works for a cable company.  He is always running into people stealing cable.  Actually he makes most of his money turning them in and re-selling to them.  \nIt's easy to spot and I don't recommend anyone doing it.\n\nYou may say that it was on when you moved in but a good persistant sales guy will keep checking to see if you have reconnected and keep cutting the lines back until you either pay or get satillite.  There are a few honest people left.
914388
most local cable companies offer a public access class/service. that's one of the best places to get your feet wet. if that's not a possibility, then just be yourself. don't think about the camera, the production crew, or the 30 million people watching you.
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Well, you must go through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to get your channel. There are many federal laws and rules that you must abide by to run your sattelite channel.\n\nClick here to visit the FCC web iste to learn how to start your own channel: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/shva/
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If its not in the list, your area is not ready for it yet. What you have to do is call your local phone/Cable company and see what is avaible in your area
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I am assuming you want to compete with Verizon and Cingular and all the other big boys.  Good luck.  You will need a lot of cash for start up expenses, such as computers, towers, lease air time etc.\nTo be honest, if you have to ask, it is too big of a challenge.\nIf you just want to own a cell phone store, contact the company you want to represent and you can buy a franchise.
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In Tampa, you have all the call centers, verizon, aol, bellsouth, Zytel, and alot of the others.  They start between 10-14 an hour.  The retail stores hire techs around 9.  You also have Road Runner, they start around 11 I think, cable pullers around 8, and of course if you have a truck you can install cable for a commision.\n\nTo get higher, if you have the education, you'd go for the private companies looking for IT work, you might start as high as 15 an hour if you keep looking.
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what cable company do u have?
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cable is not that bad if you have basic programing and then the internet service. Its direct tv thats expensive because you have to have a seperate dish for your internet and another one for your tv..thats a lot of equipment. trust me i used to work for them.
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Depends where you live. In CA my company in Cox Cable. They provide phone, cable internet, and digital cable TV.
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in reality there are several technical differences, but what matters to you is that DSL comes trough the phone line, therefore, if you do not have a contract with the phone company, you cannont have DSL, while cables, well... it comes trought the cable company, and you CAN have internet without having to have a contract or cable TV, so... to have cable internet you wouldn't have to cancel your contract with the dish company... \n\nAlso, cable is more expensive... and finally.... DSL software... messes up computers... while cable internet do not need any extra software, just windows.\n\nand more, depending on the price of the different packages...
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Sure you can get cable internet.
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Become a radio ham and use "roll your own" equipment. Frequencies from near DC to light, analogue and digital, radio and TV - it's all there. If you can get your kit to work, you have the added bonus of being able to talk shop with others who have done the same.\nIn most countries, you no longer have to learn Morse to qualify (but if you want to be economical with power and confirm that you too can get across the Atlantic with 1 watt erp, you'll need Morse).
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You need a land line to have DSL because it needs the phone line connection to connect to the ISP.\n\nYou dont need a land line for Cable.
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Have lots of money and get an FCC license. You'll need to line up some advertisers.  Start up a reality TV channel. You can run around all day with a video camera and film dumb people, pretty people, crazy people, crime, natural disasters all sorts of cool stuff.  Have it be a live feed so it's all happening this minute.  I'd watch your channel.\nIf you live east of the mississippi your channel will have to start with a "W" if west it will have to start with a "K". If you live in the west call it KOOK TV. If in the east call it WHOA TV.