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AT&T is promising to offer cheaper Internet service to poor people if it's allowed to buy DirecTV. This is similar to a promise that helped Comcast gain government approval of its 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal.
Qualifying residents in areas where AT&T's top speeds are below 5 Mbps (that's not a typo) will be offered DSL service of "up to 1.5 Mbps, where available" for $10 a month, AT&T said in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission last week. It'll be $5 a month for the first year before rising to $10 for the next three years. AT&T is proposing a four-year commitment in total.
In areas where AT&T's top speeds are higher, the company said it "will offer a broadband wireline DSL service at speeds up to 5 Mbps to households in AT&T's wireline footprint for $10 per month for the first 12 months of service (rising to $20 per month for the remainder of the term of the commitment)."
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:42AM
Clark County 9-1-1 received more than 1,000 fireworks complaints. Some joker not only burned down his own home but his neighbor's as well.
The law on the books does not permit the fire marshall to declare an emergency fireworks ban. The huge oubluc outcry quite likely will result in a county ordinance that grants him that authority. Im going to start attending county council meetings so I can speak to the counsellors in its support.
The councillor for my district is obviously on the take, The Columbian lampoons Din Madore damn near every day. I myself am not so shy about speaking my mind.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]