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To: damniseedemons who wrote (14522)	10/24/2002 2:32:50 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

SBC has all these teasers (nothing for free though)... but when you look into it, after the first 3-6 mos or so, DSL + all the assoc. taxes ends up costing you close to $50/mo. around here. There was an article from business week recently that discussed this pricing issue pretty succinctly- people that are non-techies have high speed internet at work, they'll shop at amazon there- and just use dialup for email rather than pay over $40/mo. Makes sense to me, I know I complain about my cable TV rates, also way too high but the same pricing issue... monopoly power at its best Lizzie