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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Cable Television
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Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 01:18:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  5 01:18:16 1986
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>     The services offered to subscribers were a BASIC rate which ran 
> about $ 4.50 per month and gave you access to all of the local 
> stations including those of NH and RI (we're in MA) plus CNN Headline 
> News and a few others.  The SUPER CABLE rate (which required 
> installation of a decoder was only about $ 7.50/mo and this added a 
> number of other stations including MTV, ESPN, CNN, etc. 
   
   Consider yourself lucky to have had it cheap for a while. Here, your
SUPER CABLE is the BASIC service and it costs $27.50/month! Even with
the rate hike you'll still be getting it a lot cheaper than we do.
I don't think you have anything to complain about.

--Greg