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   It took cable _years_ to get into our complex

   

   Michael Vilain, Mar 31st, 2005 @ 2:37am

   
   

   I've been here since 1989 and it was some years after that before the local cable co-op had service to our area. Then they were bought by AT&T and finally Comcast.
   
   Some our members are pissed that they can't get any sort of satillite TV because they're on the wrong side of the building (requiring connecting their dish on the roof, which is against the CC&R's).
   
   If only there were another alternative, but the local municiple fibre hook up is "just across the bridge" not 500 feet away.

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   Re: It took cable _years_ to get into our complex

   

   Daranthalis, Mar 31st, 2005 @ 5:36am

   
   

   Doesn't federal law mandate that you can put a small dish anywhere? I seem to recall that some cities with aggressively protected historic districts were very put out with this law some years ago.

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   Re: It took cable _years_ to get into our complex

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 31st, 2005 @ 7:25am

   
   

   Federal law only allows you to place an antenna (satellite or terrestrial) on property you own. If you neighbor's house block a satellite dish's view of the sky, you do not have the right to go and mount your dish on his house.

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   Forced Cable

   

   Bob Anderson, Mar 31st, 2005 @ 8:22am

   
   

   The building owners get free service in exchange for these contracts. The residents get a few dollars off of the "regular" rates, and the cable companies get exclusive rights to the building.
   Pretty sweet deal for everyone!

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   He "hardly ever watches it"

   

   DV Henkel-Wallace, Mar 31st, 2005 @ 10:29am

   
   

   At least he uses it once in a while. We don't even own a tv and it would really tick me off to have to pay for it.
   
   He complains anyway that there's nothing to watch. By the look of him, he should go running instead, killing two birds with one stone!

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   Re: putting a dish up in condo complex

   

   Michael Vilain, Mar 31st, 2005 @ 1:10pm

   
   

   Perhaps federal law does say this, but condo homeowners don't own the roof of the complex. That's "common area" and governed by the Homeowner's Association.
   
   We won't allow satillite dishes actually on the roof because they might damage it in a storm. Owners can hire a bonded, insured contractor to install a dish on the side of a fascia board in specific locations up there, but they can't go on the roof due to insurance issues. In the end, people on that side of the building either get cable or use an internal attena.

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