SCN: Seattle services (was AT&T Broadband)

[Scot Harkins on SCN]

AT&T makes it hard to find because they want you to call, then they can hard
sell you on the "special deals" that run the bill up by bits and pieces.
"Hmmm...that's only a few $$$ more per month for that."  Then later
"hmmm...that's only a few $$$ more per month to add that."  Pretty soon your
bill is up in the stratosphere.  They also know it's harder for many folks
to say "no" to a human being.

Tacoma has their own city-wide fiber-optic network serving the city and its
citizens.  They got tired of waiting on the private companies to build out
the internet access (waiting for market forces, you know).  It's that very
network that put Tacoma on the map as a forward-looking city that didn't sit
on its hands waiting for AT&T or whoever to come through with high-speed
internet and digital cable services.


sh

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Scot Harkins (KA5KDU)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "patrick fisher" <clariun at yahoo.com>
To: "scn" <scn at scn.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: SCN: Seattle services (was AT&T Broadband)


> It must be mentioned that the rates were raised and are not reflected in
this
> matrix. The new rates are listed at
http://www.cityofseattle.net/cable/new.htm.
>
> According to the matrix, Tacoma users have good internet and cable rates.
>
> Patrick


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