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Low income and rural neighborhood residents buy more premium channels, pay-per-views, high speed Internet and other producs and services.
Yeah, I've heard AT&T execs say that, I know it's an internal talking point, and I'm sure it's based on some marginally relevant statistics that may even be partially true. The truth of that statement should then be pretty easily tested by how quickly U-Verse and FiOS gets deployed to low income and rural areas, yes?
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I guess if the projects were "cherry picked" the suburbs would be without cable service. The NAACP supports competition and increased telecommunications industry access for all who have been overcharged or blocked by cable TV.
Yet they support bills that eliminate the very franchise system that forced providers to push services out to those areas in the first place?