Nov022009
Cable TV is essential, court rules
Filed under General by david brooks at 9:49 am
A couple of people have sent me notes about this Telegraph story from Friday - NH Supreme Court rules cable TV is an essential utility - because when writing about my travails with the digital broadcast transition I’ve noted my cable-less status (except for Internet; Comcast provides my broadband). Apparently the fact that I can’t watch “Mythbusters” is now a court-recognized diability! </exaggeration>
The ruling, if you don’t want to click through, says landlords can’t shut off cable in a rent dispute because cable is now sometimes used for telephone service, and courts have long said that the telephone is an “essential utility” and therefore can’t be touched by landlords. The weird thing is that the ruling doesn’t require a tenant to actually use their cable for telephony; it provides a blanket dispensation, so to speak.
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