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Re: more updates

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From: Geoff Gass
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:17
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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>
>> It's still stupid but they have something up their sleeve with this billing
>> change, which is really all it comes down to. 
>
> Ha, hate following up my own posts but I ran across a possible reason, they
> going to abandon us.
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-May-Sell-Off-Many-DSL-Markets-118709
>
> Getting us DSL people off the AT&T phone bill under a new account, they can
> sell all us dopes to another company without a last minute bums rush.
>
> Like I said, the uverse business office said around these parts (Albany Park),
> there isn't any uverse and none on the horizon. We must be one of the
> unprofitable segments of the empire.

since they're talking about markets, I read it as more that they're looking
to sell off some more rural or far suburban areas, not neighborhoods within
the city.
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From: Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com>
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Subject: Re: more updates
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:17:07 +0000 (UTC)
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