I think you really need to live in LA, like I do, to appreciate the serious problems we have here:
1. A lot of the Infrastructure is old and broken.
2. The only games in town for DSL are SBC or Verizon - both of which have serious problems in terms of timely installation.
3. Adelphia "services" my area (actually, one of the nicer areas of the city), and censors cable TV (the owner of Adelphia refuses to carry certain material; he can do that, but I WANT A CHOICE) and does NOT provide cable modem service in my area at all, and has no plans to do so. As a result, I have satellite TV, and DSL from SBC, which works well now that it has been installed for almost 3 years. The ISP, PBI, cannot run a news server or an email server, so I have to pay more for these services from other sources.
Again - I WANT TO HAVE A CHOICE!
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I think you really need to live in LA, like I do, to appreciate the serious problems we have here: 1. A lot of the Infrastructure is old and broken. 2. The only games in town for DSL are SBC or Verizon - both of which have serious problems in terms of timely installation. 3. Adelphia "services" my area (actually, one of the nicer areas of the city), and censors cable TV (the owner of Adelphia refuses to carry certain material; he can do that, but I WANT A CHOICE) and does NOT provide cable modem service in my area at all, and has no plans to do so. As a result, I have satellite TV, and DSL from SBC, which works well now that it has been installed for almost 3 years. The ISP, PBI, cannot run a news server or an email server, so I have to pay more for these services from other sources. Again - I WANT TO HAVE A CHOICE!