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Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 07:19 PM Aug 2012

Stop Verizon Deal

This is copy of e-mail I received today from Communicaton Workers of American (CWA):

Verizon and the nation’s largest cable companies including Comcast and Time Warner have inked a deal to come together and sell each other’s products and services.

If the deal between Verizon Wireless and large cable companies goes through, it will end up costing much more than the price of your cable bill.

The lack of cable competition will send your cable and Internet rates up, but the hidden costs will be even bigger. With no competition, we’ll lose the freedom to choose between providers. And with no incentive to keep up with improvements, communities will lose the chance to connect to a high-speed future.

Pressure from concerned people like you has already forced Verizon and the cable companies to disclose details of a deal it was trying to push through in secret. In spite of those initial successes, the deal is still moving forward. We need to make sure our voices continue to be heard until we can stop it completely.

Visit the FCC’s comment page to tell them to stop this deal.

This information monopoly will continue to funnel money out of the pockets of consumers and into the pockets of cable and wireless executives.

The only thing consumers will get out of this deal are higher prices and fewer choices.

We need you to continue to show that you oppose this arrangement.

Demand the FCC protect consumer choices:

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/begin?procName=12-4&filedFrom=X

In Unity,

Beth Allen
Online Mobilization Coordinator

So I guess we need to let the FCC know people like us will be severly impacted by this and need to stop it. This is my activism against corporate greed. I hate corporate greed and anything that looks like it.



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Stop Verizon Deal (Original Post) Left Coast2020 Aug 2012 OP
Kansas City is getting Google Fiber RC Aug 2012 #1
K&R. Thanks for posting. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #2
I would have thought this was futile a year ago customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #3
It has been my dream for the last several years Left Coast2020 Aug 2012 #6
what are the details of the deal, any links? snooper2 Aug 2012 #4
Where I am, there is only one cable co. (Warner) It has always been that way... Honeycombe8 Aug 2012 #5
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
1. Kansas City is getting Google Fiber
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 07:35 PM
Aug 2012
http://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/
Up to one gigabit upload & download speed • Full channel TV lineup • 2 year contract • No data caps
Nexus 7 tablet • TV Box • Storage Box • Network Box • 1TB Google Drive • $120/mo + taxes and fees



Don't think Verizon/comcast/Time Warner will be happening here much.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
3. I would have thought this was futile a year ago
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 09:47 PM
Aug 2012

But the merger between T-Mobile and AT&T was thwarted, so maybe there's a chance.

Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
6. It has been my dream for the last several years
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:47 AM
Aug 2012

that we get a fair and "equal" media. Yes, we've won before and "WE" can do it again. But the people come first-not the corporate suits who care less about the people.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
5. Where I am, there is only one cable co. (Warner) It has always been that way...
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 09:54 PM
Aug 2012

since I've lived here (17 years). Altho it used to be AT&T cable, then Comcast, then something else. But always just one cable co.

Sounds like the deal might open the options, then?

I've heard some areas have a choice of cable cos., but I don't (Dallas TX proper).

I have DirecTV. I could also get Dish.

So my choices are:
satellite (directv or Dish)
Time Warner cable
AT&T Uverse (which isn't exactly cable...not sure what it is. TV thru phone lines? Not sure)

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