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BellSouth sues Joi Internet for false advertising
(old news - 03:04PM Sunday Feb 22 2004)
Justin Rubner
Staff writer
Atlanta Business Chronicle

The competition for Internet service subscribers is moving from advertising to the courtroom.

BellSouth Corp. is suing Atlanta-based Joi Internet, claiming the cut-rate Internet provider's advertising for its "Joi Express" dial-up service is misleading the public and cutting into BellSouth's high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) business.

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technick
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join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA

good move

I like Joi Internet, don't get me wrong, i've had my joi account for over a year now as backup, and it's great when I need it in the field for whatever. Joi's billboards are misleading claiming dsl speed over dial up for 9.95 a month, which we all know it's just a cache program, and a waste of time. Companies using this methodolgy to get a leg up should be taking down and sued silly.
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permalink · 2004-02-24 21:19:07 · Print · Reply to this

bathswife
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join:2000-09-06
Birmingham, AL
clubs:

Re: good move

It reminds me of all the netzero ads I've been seeing claiming that netzero can give dial up users 5 times the speed of their regular dial up...for an extra $5 a month. When I saw that I thought it was a good idea...the advertising works. I wondered how they did it. My sister who lives in an area where neither cable or dsl is available was thinking about switching to netzero from aol. I have been trying to get off of aol for years but she's lazy. Anyway, we used my backup bellsouth dial up on her pc to test something and I found out that the bellsouth dial up offers the exact same thing....as you said, a cache reducing program and of course, don't charge anything for the use of it (as it should be). And now there are probably millions of users on netzero paying an extra $5 a month for their so called 5X faster than dialup connection. The public ought to sue them! Let's start a revolt
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permalink · 2004-02-29 00:02:41 · Print · Reply to this
Kinko

join:2003-07-18
Dayton, TN

Power to the Educated!

Yes, this "High Speed without price of ADSL" is simply a free utility that they pass onto you. Power to the educated.
permalink · 2004-02-25 19:53:54 · Reply to this
NotWulfen

join:2003-07-29
Anderson, IN

Re: Power to the Educated!

and a SlipStream server on their network.
permalink · 2004-03-03 19:07:25 · Reply to this
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