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Article #5722Re: Alternatives to Comcast?
From: Proprclr
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:08
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:08
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"Stephan Mynarkiewicz" <white1ightning@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<c8suam0rqn@news4.newsguy.com>... > "Scott in Aztl�n" <slothkills@THEyahooOBVIOUS.com> wrote in message > news:0403b01l8stes1f0td718lr86dutbnkugu@4ax.com... > > In misc.consumers, Rick said: > > > > >Just got notification that Comcast is "improving" their service on > > >6/2/04. The net effect of this "improvement" is, if we want to get > > >the same basic channels we do now, our monthly bill will increase > > >from $15/month to $42/month. > > > > Heh heh - good old Comcast! The one thing they are good at is raising > rates. > > They can't fix the snow and interference in the picture, but they excel at > > lining their pockets... > > They spent all that money to buy Tech TV. You didn't think THEY (Comcrap) > were going to foot the bill? I also heard that they pissed in it and watered it down. I never did get to watch Tech TV, but I heard that it was aimed for the more experienced computer crowd, those who know how to write a CONFIG.SYS file, or run Linux as their operating system.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 107518,ca03142809305096 X-Google-Thread: 106595,ca03142809305096 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,gid106595,public Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: balanco01@yahoo.com (Proprclr) Newsgroups: misc.consumers,ba.consumers Subject: Re: Alternatives to Comcast? Date: 10 Jun 2004 05:08:41 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 22 Message-ID: <cb8bd93a.0406100408.17ff50d@posting.google.com> References: <2hcnqdFbj686U1@uni-berlin.de> <0403b01l8stes1f0td718lr86dutbnkugu@4ax.com> <c8suam0rqn@news4.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.38.224.48 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1086869322 2386 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2004 12:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:08:42 +0000 (UTC)