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[IP] Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month





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From: "(Mr) Lyn R Kennedy" <lrkn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 24, 2005 10:14:48 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month


On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:24PM -0400, David Farber wrote:


Begin forwarded message:

Subject: [ip] Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a
month

Verizon and SBC are also preparing to sell video programming over their
high-speed data lines in the coming year, so they want to attract more
customers to their entry-level broadband services in the hopes that they
will later upgrade to the faster D.S.L. and fiber optic connections
needed to watch television.


This is a rather amazing statement since both SBC and Verizon refuse to
install DSL in my community, a nice residential community of $250,000 to
$2 million dollar houses. Most of us are in the Dallas metro LATA and SBC
brought fiber in here about 1998. SBC absolutely refuses to install DSL
even for City Hall. We can get T1 for $600/mo but not DSL.

We are represented in Congress by Joe Barton, Chairman of the House Commerce Committee which oversees communications in the federal area. Barton refuses to even call SBC on behalf of the people he is supposed to represent. Apparently he directly regulates Charter Cable which also refuses to install Internet
service. They offer digital HBO but not Internet.


The comment in my .sig below has been there for over ten years.



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