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Article #55460Re: Montgomery Cable in action again
From: Kristin Looney - Code 521
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 21:50
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 21:50
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I don't know if Montgomery county has anything similar... but the P.G. County cable company has a service called Universal Tier which they try very very hard not to let you know anything about. If I hadn't known someone who already had the service, I would probably have given up after I had been transfered around for the 5th time with everyone I talked to telling me that they knew of no such service... but it does exist. After paying a hefty instalation charge of $59 (the current free instalation special they were running, of course, did not apply) I now have cable (B side only) for $3 a month. I don't actually know what is on the A side, since I've never had it, the B side basically has all the local channels (with perfect reception) as well as TBS and MTV and maybe a few other things I never watch. I think many of the pay movie channels are also on the B side if you get them... but I don't know if they would let you get them if you had the $3 service - again, I've never tried. If all you are really interested in is getting good reception, and you don't care about all the special channels that come with having cable... ... it exists, you just have to know to ask.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101049,72229f3e59e284a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-24 14:49:54 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!nsisrv!kong!kristin From: kristin@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kristin Looney - Code 521) Newsgroups: dc.general Subject: Re: Montgomery Cable in action again Summary: A little know option called "Universal Tier" Message-ID: <1992Jan24.215028.9373@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 24 Jan 92 21:50:28 GMT References: <PRZEMEK.92Jan17144949@rrdstrad.nist.gov> Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 20