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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (26917)	1/15/2006 5:22:38 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57684

on this topic... I had to call my cable provider just yesterday to discuss the rates I pay. I was shocked to discover they now have one of these "tiered" internet packages- slow internet, medium and high. Unless you pay through the nose you get crappy service. Imho the service is pretty bad right now. But anyway I thought to myself, how is this approach to business different than planned obsolesence? I probably COSTS RCN to offer a 3 tiered internet, it would be cheaper for them to offer the best service to everybody. In asia broadband is $5 per month. Anyway I went to check out the alternatives (which, out here are SBC)- and I was shocked to find the SBC home page still talking about bundles with this and that Long Distance!! Long Distance?! What are you kidding me? Landline phone connections with long distance for $40/month? I thought I was back in 85 or something. SBC deliberately makes it almost impossible to see how much it costs for these basic utilities per month. They quote some promo 3 months price and to find the "real" price its embedded within the fine print. And back to RCN, just to find the price for basic cable is impossible too. Its this special premium channel and that special channel and blah blah blah. Everything for cable tv is $80 per month and UP, amazingly. I sincerely hope Google shuts this whole system down. What a hindrance to productivity.