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To: DenverTechie who wrote (2429)	12/3/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: ftth	Respond to of 12823

All your eggs in one basket: Think twice before switching your phone service to your cable operator. Another outage today, except this time it was both the @HOME service and the TV service....which got me thinking....I'd be SOL if I also had my phone service thru the cable company. Would have to drive to a pay phone and wait on hold to tell them about the problem. We can bash the telcos all we like re: high speed data, but the phone service is extremely reliable, and has been over the years. Cable-based telephony services have a LONG way to go to establish a reliability record....their bread-and-butter services aren't even very reliable. Just as with selecting insurance, price alone shouldn't be the only criteria. Reliable telephone service is VITAL; data and TV are steps below telephone service on the importance scale. No dedicated emergency channels on the @HOME network that I'm aware of (although that'd be a great service to add in lieu of more lame content on the "homepage"). In my best analyst's voice: "I recommend a diversified portfolio of voice and data services as a hedge against total loss of communications assets." dh