[ale] Cable and DSL Going Straight to Heck (was [ale] atlnet)

[James P. Kinney III]

I'm real close to telling Awful Telephone & Turd  to just disconnect me.
They jacked up my rates promising me Sci-Fi channel. TWO years later, I
get it. I've had it for a bit over a year. So now they want to raise my
rates and lock me to one tv set to watch Sci-Fi. I think I can afford to
spend my $43/mo on something else. And they can't fix the terrible
reception on the PBS channels. Grrrr.

For similar jerk business reasons, I don't buy music from any label that
has signed on to the DCMA, I don't buy beer from the Coors company, and
I won't buy diamonds EVER until the DeBeers cartel is jailed.

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 18:43, jeff hubbs wrote:
> Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> > Actually, dialing *any* choice on the PBX/ex-fax number (770 476-8791, for
> > future ref) gives you the busy/full-mailbox nastygram. I suppose a certified
> > and/or registered snail-mail letter would be your next recourse ...
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:41:46PM -0500, David Brooks wrote:
> > 
> >>*boggle* I really don't know.  You can get through to their PBX if you
> >>dial their fax line, but selecting the normal "2" choice to get to Todd
> >>seems to result in the PBX telling you that the line is busy and, just
> >>today, tells you that you cannot leave a message because the voice
> >>mailbox is full.
> >>
> >>Truly strange.  If it's down for much longer I'm going to have to see if
> >>another provider can get me up with my DSL...
> 
> 
> 
> I dont' want to point fingers unfairly, but I wonder if this is anything 
> like what I went through Sep-Nov with DirecTV - Bellsouth causes or lets 
> the DSL connection fail, they simply go deaf to the ISP's inquiries, and 
> they tell you to basically go to hell when you call because you're not a 
> Bellsouth DSL customer.
> 
> Slight change of subject:  I've noticed that AT&T Broadband is removing 
> channels from their analog CATV service, putting crawlers on the 
> channels in question saying that they're "moving" to DIGITAL service's 
> channel xxx.
> 
> Not only are they not going to reduce their charge for giving me less 
> service, they plan to raise my rates in January.  If I knuckle under in 
> order to get those channels back, they're going to charge me more per 
> month as well PLUS any installation fee they decide to levy.
> 
> I called AT&T Broadband this morning and was basically told to pound sand.
> 
> If this affects you and you hate it (Speedvision and Sci-Fi are among 
> the affected channels), the Fulton County Cable Coordinator's name is 
> Desiree Hanson (sp?) and her number is 404 730 6456.
> 
> Spread the word.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
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