It will be no coincidence that UPC and Ziggo merge, barely a month after the last bit of the influence of the Dutch citizens on the television offer, the program councils, have disappeared. Monopolist Ziggo after the acquisition by UPC now free play, at least on your television.
hundreds of (mostly) local program councils who knew his Netherlands on 1 January 2014, more or less silently lifted. The councils determined on behalf of the citizens which television and radio stations were required to pass a cable company and were in fact a remnant of the Central Antenna Systems (CAI), which many years ago, the major cable companies have emerged. They formed a guarantee of any influence in the storm of mergers that has now led to the formation of a large, throughout the Netherlands including cable company, with head offices in London and New York.
Natuurlijjk is the merger (or acquisition, if you will) of UPC and Ziggo logistics obvious: the foreign division of the country between the two companies is the result of the long history of the TV schedule. So I watch digital TV via Ziggo, 500 meters further to the west, the people do with UPC. We understand very well that it is very convenient for the business in the Netherlands and in that situation an end: an office and a desk, all of that is much cheaper and more efficient. Though we seriously doubt that economies of scale will come. To the user as well
Heft into their own hands
In the comments on the merger goes so far still the question whether the ‘new’ Ziggo obliged later to other companies to its network and whether it is dominant in the market with 90 percent of Dutch households are not accessibility. That seems obvious case. But the question of how it is with the impact that Dutch citizens can exercise at home to see what he gets is not asked. Apparently no priority given to it more in The Hague. There is still dominated neoliberal market ideology that has brought, such as our health, postal and energy.
Fortunately, there are ways for citizens nowadays to take. matters into his own hands again Recent studies show that nearly one in seven people are seriously thinking of the subscription television cable, and ensure that in future only to watch video-on-demand, as they can through Netflix, not for nothing called Ziggo yesterday as one of its main competitors. The television landscape will change dramatically, but it is unfortunate that any form of democratic control on your smart TV is now missing.
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