From: frank.kennedy@u2u.lonestar.org (Frank Kennedy)
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
Subject: CSC11                 2/2
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: frank.kennedy@u2u.lonestar.org (Frank Kennedy)
Organization: USER-TO-USER PCBoard (214)492-6565 (USR DS v32bis)

>>> Continued from previous message
        C. suggested Customer Service Representative letter

        Dear Senator...

        I am a CSR at ____ cable company, and talk with customers
        all day long. What customers tell me they want is more and
        better programming. S.12 will have the opposite effect
        because we will no longer be able to spend the money
        necessary to expand our channel capacity.
        Again please vote aganist S.12.

        D. suggested Plant Construction Employee letter

        Dear Senator...

        I urge your vote aganist S.12. I work in plant construction
        for ____ cable company. My company has been actively
        investing in new technology to improve picture quality and
        reliability. I am concerned that S.12 will force my company
        to stop investing its money in this area. This will hurt
        consumers, cable operators, and the local economy.
        Please vote "no" on S.12.
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COMMENTS ABOUT THE ABOVE PROPAGANDA:

* Section 1, STEP 1 suggests letters should arrive in Washington from
  August 28 through September 8. Maybe that is good information for
  us consumers. The following is a brief suggested letter to send to
  Senators and Representatives to attempt to counter cables efforts:

   Dear Senator/Representative...

   Competition has always resulted in lower prices and better product.
   Cable Television is currently running an anti-competition campaign
   that will falsely influence cable consumers and, they hope influence
   you to ignore the benefits of competition. Please appreciate we
   citizens have been subjected to the stranglehold of cable too long.
   We consumers want a release from cables monopoly. Let competition
   be the avenue. Please support S.12 and HR.4850 legislation.

   Respectfully,

   sign it, and print your name and address.
   send your letter to:

        Senator...                      Representative...
        S.O.B.                          H.O.B.
        Washington, D.C. 20510          Washington, D.C. 20515


* Near the end of section 2 states, "provisions fueled by our media
  rivals attempts to gain a competitive advantage on the cable
  industry."  Competitive industries to cable are only looking for a
  level playing field, not a competitive advantage but, cable doesn't
  surprise me with such wording as they feel threatened as they would
  after having enjoyed a monopoly status for sooo long; and having had
  an agenda for years to kill off all possible competition.

  The following is a suggested letter to the editor to aware cable
  consumers of the bunk cable is putting out:

Cable television is currently campaigning aganist pending consumer
legislation in the U.S. Congress, "THE CABLE TELEVISION CONSUMER
PROTECTION AND COMPETITION ACT OF 1992."  Note the title of the
legislation says Protection and Competition. The monopoly cable
industry will use advertisements, letters to the editor, and other
methods in an effort to sway us consumers to believe the enactment
into law of this legislation will cause our cable rates to go up.
What they won't tell us is the legislation is fashioned to cause
the cable monopoly to have to compete fairly with other businesses
wishing to provide multiple channel programming to us consumers -
wireless cable, current satellite technology, future small satellite
dish technology, and the telephone company. Congress, in its wisdom,
has finally realized cable is a monopoly.

The best way to stop a monopoly is through competition. That is not
what the cable monopoly wants. They will prey on our fears to sway our
thinking. Be wary. Competition has always kept costs down. That is not
what cable wants. Just think of what has happened to our cable rates
during the last eight years while cable has enjoyed a monopoly status.

To support competition to cable contact our elected officials and
ask them to, "Please ask your confiree colleagues to support the
consumer cable protection and competition bills S-12 and HR-4850."
Our elected officials can be reached at,

        Senator...                      Representative...
        S.O.B.                          H.O.B.
        Washington, D.C.  20510         Washington, D.C.  20515
        (202) 224-3121                  (202) 224-3121
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