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

[David C. Thewlis]

Hopefully they will start going north onto Dows Prairie.  We're stuck 
with Suddenlink out here but I've been told they do have plans, although 
not yet a schedule.

Dave Thewlis

CrawfordCA at aol.com wrote:
> 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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