Consumers win one, lose one
Jan. 31st, 2007 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatcrazycajunOn the upside in today's business news: YES!!! US Airways finally threw in the proverbial towel and gave up trying to buy our local major carrier, Delta Air Lines. This means that the Atlanta area economy does not need to worry any more about losing yet another Fortune® 500 company HQ, as it has been doing all too often already in the last decade or so. (Story here.)
Downside: Comcast Cable (otherwise known as The Evil Empire) announced today it will hike its cable TV rates yet again on its residential customers (whose number includes Your Humble Correspondent and his partner), for the fourth time in as many consecutive years. From around $40 back in 2003 (here in Atlanta; your local rate may vary), the monthly rate for basic service now balloons to about $50. And you thought deregulation and competition would lower rates... (Story here.)
Sigh. Ya win some, ya lose some...
Downside: Comcast Cable (otherwise known as The Evil Empire) announced today it will hike its cable TV rates yet again on its residential customers (whose number includes Your Humble Correspondent and his partner), for the fourth time in as many consecutive years. From around $40 back in 2003 (here in Atlanta; your local rate may vary), the monthly rate for basic service now balloons to about $50. And you thought deregulation and competition would lower rates... (Story here.)
Sigh. Ya win some, ya lose some...
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Date: 2007-02-01 12:03 am (UTC)