[Ipg-smz] Via PR: "Can Mammoth Cable Companies Force Their Way into Your Apartment..."

Phil Shapiro pshapiro at his.com
Wed May 8 23:41:05 UTC 2019


This blog post I wrote for PCWorld magazine received 44k page views the first day it was published online. 

[ https://web.archive.org/web/20080218134444/http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/11/youre_switching.html | https://web.archive.org/web/20080218134444/http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/11/youre_switching.html ] 

"You're switching my apartment to Comcast? I'm moving out." 

Apartment managers routinely make backroom deals with large telcos -- even though doing so is illegal. 

The FCC needs a standing army -- or at least a sitting one. 

phil 



From: "dern" <dern at pair.com> 
To: "ipg-smz" <ipg-smz at netpress.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 6:03:38 PM 
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Via PR: "Can Mammoth Cable Companies Force Their Way into Your Apartment..." 

On Wed, 8 May 2019, Mac McCarthy wrote: 
> Mammoth? 

Sure, they watch a lot of TV during the long dark ice age nights... 



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