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Article #5758Re: Alternatives to Comcast?
From: Kevin McMurtrie
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 00:15
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 00:15
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In article <2hcnqdFbj686U1@uni-berlin.de>, "Rick" <me@privacy.net> wrote: > 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. > > So are there any inexpensive alternatives to Comcast in the SF > Bay Area? We've already looked into DirecTV and Voom, both > are between $40 and $50/month. > > Thanks, > Rick A roof mounted antenna. Costs ~$400 for antenna, rotator, mast, cables, remote amplifier, and hardware. Has to be serviced every 15 years or so.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107518,ca03142809305096 X-Google-Thread: 106595,ca03142809305096 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,gid106595,public Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!mcmurtri From: Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtri@dslextreme.com> Newsgroups: misc.consumers,ba.consumers Subject: Re: Alternatives to Comcast? Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 17:15:52 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <mcmurtri-D17E80.17155223052004@corp-radius.supernews.com> References: <2hcnqdFbj686U1@uni-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 17