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  • From: "Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>
  • To: internetworkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Cable A la Carte
  • Date: 07 Nov 2002 17:59:42 -0500

Check this out, and then call Time Warner

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2002/tc2002116_0167.htm

(...) a federal rule took effect in early October, 2002, that could let
savvy cable customers cut their monthly bills in half.


PICK AND CHOOSE. New York City fans of HBO's Sex & The City who
couldn't care less about the 20 or more channels that must be bought to
get that particular premium service could slash their monthly cable bill
from $56 to about $31. The smaller fee would get HBO and the major TV
networks. In Orlando, fans who want Showtime's The Chris Isaac Show but
not the assorted channels that come with it, could cut their monthly
cable costs from about $51 to just $29.

Yet hardly any customers know about the rule, despite the claims of some
cable operators that they began offering the option long ago. It's hard
to find any company that publicized it. And in interviews with financial
analysts who cover cable, not a single one was aware of the option --
though many expressed an interest as a way to cut their own cable bills.
(...)



Salut,
Josep
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  • [internetworkers] Cable A la Carte, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, 11/07/2002

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