[arachne] Re: AT&T

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Hi Sam E.,
                     Your right about AT&T.....except.....
I have experienced that they are trying to treat
the customer better right now from a service
standpoint.....However, The bills, with their
hidden add-ons are creeping back up again
just like before.....it seems like the old AT&T
more and more, when I get my bills.

Eric

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:43:36 -0400 (EDT) ewalt@xxxxxxxx writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> There should be locally accessible dial-up accounts everywhere in 
> North
> America with unlimited  (by time) service for around twenty bucks a
> month. Below twenty bucks a month is the going "come on" rate for 
> either
> high speed cable or for DSL from the entity that in the US at least
> looks more and more like "the phone company" of old. So lots of time
> and in lots of places broadband is now currently cheaper than 
> dial-up!
> Go figure. The dial up ISP's are falling by the boards--unless they 
> can
> offer boradband access somehow. There are various microwave schemes 
> for
> rural areas and then there is satellite service.
> 
> High speed internet via satellite dish should be available "anywhere
> in North America with a clear view of the southern sky" for maybe 
> sixty
> or seventy bucks a month. Or so says the adverts.
> 
> I still have dial-up because I think there should be a choice other
> than the huge cable company or the "phone company". (which here in
> Michigan is currently calling itself AT&T again after Ameritech went
> to SBC and then bought out the remains of AT&T.
> 
> I can get a DSL from my current ISP but then I have to have local
> phone service with AT&T, which I don't want. My ISP resells DSL for
> the phone company. I feel bullied, so do without. Maybe I'm just
> being cranky--but I liked it more when there were choices and more
> than two or three companies competing. But that's capitalism for
> you.
> 
> 
> 
> Ray Andrews said:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:31:46 -0400, Brian C. Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> I am not sure if Ray is back with the Vancouver Community Net as 
> his
> >> ISP,
> >> but the timing of the (2 day for me) ISP failure would suggest he 
> is.
> >
> >> When you consider the commercial rates at Compuserve, where I ran 
> my
> >> browser for a few years with $20 - $70 MONTHLY BILLS, compared to 
> the
> >> $25
> >> annual tax decuctible donation I pay at the Vancouver Community 
> net, the
> >> annoyance of a 2 day service failure is not such a big burden.
> >
> > Amen!
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ray Andrews
> >
> > -- Arachne:A1b:0e
> >
> >                   Arachne at FreeLists
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> >
> >
> 
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> 

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