You know, say what you want about Orwellian dystopias — at least murky and nightmarish Big Brother states in the realm of fiction tend to front the thought police surveillance bill.
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Waiting for Comcast Install Screed
By 4.5.06
You call up the cable company, schedule an appointment, take off time from work and they don’t show up. You’ve heard, or told, the story many a time. In fact, we receive this same complaint several times a month.
Comcast Oversold Bandwidth
By 2.28.06
Comcast oversold bandwith in Bay Area, California, resulting in speeds slower than dialup.
‘Broadband Scandal’: How the Phone Companies Screwed Us All
By 2.1.06
A new book called The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal claims to detail the variety of tax breaks and compensations offered to the Bell-spawned phone companies to build out our nation’s fiber-optic network—a network designed to bring 45-megabit per second connections into every home. We don’t know about you, but we are sending this text via a rickety old copper line, using the best 1-megabitish DSL connection Verizon has to offer.
