Did Ernestine the operator work there?
“We don’t care. We’re the phone company. We don’t have to.” From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 4:14 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Big Broadband jacking up rates now? I actually worked for “The Telephone Company” once upon a time. It was a DBA of Beehive Telephone Company. They filed for it I think when equal access was proposed. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:54 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Big Broadband jacking up rates now? hahaha I recall in the 80's seeing something on 20/20 or 60 Minutes about a phone company called "I Don't Care." Apparently if you made a collect call from a pay phone the operator would ask which carrier to use, and a lot of people would say "I Don't Care". I think the story was that it ended up in court. The court said they didn't do anything wrong, so they doubled down and filed paperwork to create a bunch of additional company names like "Whichever is cheapest" and "Just pick one". -Adam _____ From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > on behalf of Steve Jones <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 4:34 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Big Broadband jacking up rates now? i wonder if mediacom rebranded to xtreme to get confusion clicks from xfinity On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Comcast, or Xfinity? Many people seem to think those are two different companies. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 3:14 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Big Broadband jacking up rates now? At least in the case of Comcast, they see their "cable business" (NBC included) as declining value, so they are shifting their revenue stream to the one thing they have left. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/27/2025 9:20 AM, Dev wrote: > I see them (multiple vendors, after the first of the year) jacking up the > rates, sometimes by up to 20%. I’m wondering whether it’s market forces, > compensating for overspending on govt subsidized builds that they now have to > recoup, or just because they can? What are you seeing in other markets? -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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