For months now the Commerce Department office in charge of the government’s digital television conversion box coupon program has been insisting it has enough money to make sure everyone who wants to get two of the $40 coupons will be able to do so. …
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Now Hear This Newsletter, September 25, 2008
http://www.consumersunion.org/blogs/hun/2008/09/now_hear_this_newsletter_septe_1.htmlBack in May we told you about Tom Allibone, a longtime telecommunications consultant who had appointed himself an “FCC Deputy,” looking out for his fellow consumers in the runup to the national transition to digital broadcasting next February. …
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Now Hear This Newsletter, September 11, 2008
http://www.consumersunion.org/blogs/hun/2008/09/now_hear_this_newsletter_septe.htmlThe U.S. Senate’s top antitrust watchdog is asking the nation’s leading wireless companies why they have recently doubled their charges for text messages. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, has sent a letter to the presidents and chief executive officers of the four largest U.S. …
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BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.comand the suing of investigative journalists, and conducting a 30 city PR blitz against an EPA report on the health effects of dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals ever made; covertly hiring TV host and syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams to discredit public education and shill for the administration’s No Child Left Behind Act and manufacturing dozens of fake video news releases which were distributed to hundreds of TV stations where they were broadcast as news. Predictably, Ketchum’s
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False Positive Results Likely in Wilmington
http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress/?p=3039industry and others with vested interests in drawing a positive picture of the Wilmington experiment to do just that following the September 8 cutover. Unfortunately, the most likely result of the Wilmington test will be a false positive. <http://www.consumersunion.org/blogs/hun/2008/08/now_hear_this_newsletter_augus.html> For more details on the test: <http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/08/wilmington_digital_test_to_aff.php> Courtesy of the Benton Foundation <http://www.benton.org>
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Our view on cellphone contracts: Wireless providers lock in consumers with abusive fees (USATODAY.com)
http://opinion.reviewnews.org/2008/06/13/our-view-on-cellpho...Early termination fees
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The Verizon/Alltel merger: The consumer promises and issues
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2008/06/the-ver...merger to proceed, and when. (The companies themselves are aiming for completion by year's end.) Consumer advocates will weigh in on the deal's benefits and pitfalls. Those groups include Consumers' Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, which is already flagging such issues as whether provisions may be required to help cell subscribers in some rural areas where Alltel is the leading carrier and Verizon may be a close competitor. —Paul Reynolds
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Rules on DTV converter coupons might ease, but expiration date stands
http://www.newsglobal.eu/technology/rules-on-dtv-converter-c...and consumers who use post-office boxes to apply for the coupons, as our colleagues at Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, are reporting on hearusnow.org. But the agency isn’t budging on the expiration of the coupons after 90 days. CU and other groups complain that this is a potentially bigger issue, because there are still relatively few converter boxes in stores, few have the analog pass-through feature some consumers want, and none are as yet priced at $40 or less, meaning consumers must bear some
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Comcast Wireless Phone
http://get-cable-tv.blogspot.com/2008/04/comcast-wireless-ph...without using any of your wireless minutes. *For an additional fee, watch Mobile TV, right on your wireless phone and check your Comcast. . Select a phone model to view the user guide:. *MOTORAZR V9m by Motorola * . Pivot From Comcast and Sprint. Hear Us Now Blog Such fees have been a routine part wireless phone contracts for years, but . Comcast. * No early termination fee. * In many parts of the country . That effectively means wireless phone companies don't have to offer superior . And that like phone plans,
