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To: Sam who wrote (14885)	5/5/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Lee Martin	Read Replies (3) of 41369

Sam, I agree with you 100%. A couple of points that I haven't seen made yet: Let's assume I do what T wants me to do and get my telephone, television,and internet service all through their cable line. 1. What happens when the guy with the backhoe 10 miles down the road cuts the cable line? Cable has no redundant lines to reroute my service like the phone co's. Now, not only do I not have my TV, but no phone or internet! I guess I can be thankful T hasn't yet bought all the electric co's, so I still have lights and can read a book until I fall asleep from boredom. I can use my cell phone to call the cable co. and tell them the cable's out for the ___th time this month. 2. What's to keep T from jacking up the rates once they get me to switch all my services? It would be like putting the cable co's on steroids. I think it is going to be very difficult for T to convince consumers to put all their eggs into T's basket, especially when they know they are still dealing with the same unresponsive, monopolistic local cable co. that is now part of T. Regards,Lee

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