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Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T Yahoo
·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Cox HSI
·AT&T Southwest
| reply to Matt
Re: Shocked?
The Telcos promised if granted these state wide franchises, over-riding local and city oversight, that they'd roll out their new services and compete with Cable.
This they have done. However, when they told everyone that the competition would bring lower prices, better service, etc etc they were just blowing smoke. I can certainly say that here the U-Verse offerings are 1) Either slightly less then Cox, for a lot less services or 2) Bundles for everything that actually cost more then Cox.
So if you were thinking that the high prices might fall, well big surprise, it ain't happening. The only thing that's a surprise is that people actually fell for these sales talk.... "Give up your local regulatory power and we'll make your dreams come true."
Ok, so it's given up (taken away, actually) and the dream is actually the nightmare.
Predictable, as some of us said at the start.
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