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[tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>]

Hi: Here's an interesting site I came across. Maybe there's others that 
may not know about Consumer Reports going "digital". Here's a sample:
http://www.consumersunion.org/telecom/unfairdc601.htm
Letter to FTC

"Dear Chairman Muris:

We are writing on behalf of Consumers Union the Consumer Federation of 
America, the Media Access Project and the Center for Digital Democracy 
to urge you to investigate AOL Time Warner's refusal to carry 
advertising of phone companies trying to promote DSL Internet service on 
Time Warner cable systems. This refusal appears to be a violation of 
both the letter and spirit of the consent decree.

Time Warner cable has denied requests for carriage of DSL advertisements 
in markets around the country. This anti-competitive behavior appears to 
violate the letter of the consent decree, as the decree provided an 
unmistakable requirement that AOL Time Warner must promote the DSL 
services of other carriers. The Commission's Decision and Order In the 
Matter of America Online, Inc. and Time Warner Inc. stated clearly that

Respondents shall market and promote DSL Services to Subscribers in 
those geographic areas in which any of Respondents' Cable Holdings are 
located and Affiliated Cable Broadband ISP Service or Road Runner is 
Available at the same or comparable level and in the same or comparable 
manner as Respondents market and promote DSL Services to Subscribers in 
those areas in which neither Affiliated Cable Broadband ISP Service nor 
Road Runner is available. Decision and Order at 12.

It is hard to understand how the Commission could have intended anything 
but the prevention of exactly the kind of behavior in which AOL Time 
Warner is engaging."
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Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV

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