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This is copy of e-mail I received today from Communicaton Workers of American (CWA):
Verizon and the nations largest cable companies including Comcast and Time Warner have inked a deal to come together and sell each others 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, well 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 FCCs 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.
RC
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Don't think Verizon/comcast/Time Warner will be happening here much.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)But the merger between T-Mobile and AT&T was thwarted, so maybe there's a chance.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)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.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)can't comment on something you aren't educated on-
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)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)