[RTC List] Re(4): AT&T press release

[CrawfordCA at aol.com]

Greetings fellow RTCers   ...

AT&T (aka Ma Bell) merely suffers from bad press release writing  ...  this 
IS worthy news in that deployment of DSL has been dramatically extended in the 
last 30 days to include many of the areas heretofore unserviced (such as 
Humboldt Hill, Cutten, etc.), and the pricing is a modest $15/month for basic 
service that is not a teaser rate or one that requires long-term contracts.

Again our local press is asleep at the switch and failed to cover what I 
consider to be a major improvement in our local broadband deployment efforts.

The moral of the story is ... all that appears slick is not necessarily spam.

Chris Crawford
www.justiceserved.com

(writing from SFO trying to return home from a business trip to New Jersey on 
the busiest travel day of the year  ...  sheesh)



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In a message dated 11/22/2006 11:27:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
postmaster at thedigest.com writes:

> I agree. This seems to be nothing other than a cheap PR pitch. I get
> them every single day as an editor. AT&T regularly sends press releases
> out in "bulk", where they claim to offer some great deal that is
> specific to a particular region, only there are dozens and dozens of
> different versions of the same story which only differ by the city,
> state, region, etc. that they mention. If there was any expansion truly
> worth mentioning, they would have mentioned it!
> 
> Meanwhile, don't count on being able to get DSL service anytime soon in
> areas like Cutten, Humboldt Hill, large parts of Arcata and
> McKinleyville, etc. Ironically enough, DSL isn't even available at
> AT&T's own repair facility on Humboldt Hill, where most of their
> employees work out of. I'm guessing that they can probably afford to
> spring for a T1 at the office though. :-)
> 
> William Van Hefner
> President
> Vantek Communications, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:09:25 -0800
> Michael Welch <mwelch at redwoodalliance.org> wrote:
> 
> >Hi folks. I think the reason you have not read about it is that it is
> >not really news, just marketing. Unless I missed it in my quick
> >reading, the only "expansion" is pricing and product announcement.
> >
> >Further, the intent of the headline appears designed to lead an
> >editor to believe that there might be something newsworthy. They
> >might print it if they didn't read the whole thing. This news release
> >is merely an attempt at getting free publicity through a misleading
> >headline.
> >
> >Pretty slimy. But, after all, what else should we expect from Ma
> >Bell? (Anyone else remember that old moniker?)
> >
> >Tina Nerat wrote at 09:27 AM 11/22/2006:
> > 
> >I haven?t seen anything in the news locally (though I could have
> >missed it), so I thought I?d pass this on. Got it yesterday from AT&T
> >educational rep. Tina For more information, contact:
> >Name: Brooke Fornaciari
> >Office: (916) 492-5321
> >E-Mail: fornacib at fleishman.com
> > 
> >AT&T ANNOUNCES EXPANDED AVAILABILITY OF HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS
> >SERVICES IN EUREKA
> >
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - -
> >Michael Welch, volunteer
> >Redwood Alliance
> >PO Box 293
> >Arcata, CA 95518
> >707-822-7884
> >mwelch at redwoodalliance.org
> >www.redwoodalliance.org

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