no rumor, Radio Shack has it.  You can get tv and internet on the same
dish.  Main problem: The internet service is MSN.
Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of David
> P. Schwartz
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 8:59 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Sprint Broandband -- consider this...
>
>
> RUMOR:  I was at the new CostCo in ChrisTown just after they opened (early
> December) and had an interesting conversation with the guy who
> was managing
> their computer stock.  He said that CostCo had recently signed a
> contract with
> some (unnamed) company to be the exclusive distributor of a NEW
> service that's
> launching in the March-April time-frame.  This is supposedly a
> satellite-based
> service that uses one of the little 19" dish antennae and will provide a
> hundred or more cable TV channels, phone, and high-speed internet
> access, all
> for a price he said would be comparable to what you'd pay Cox
> Cable for about
> the same service.
>
> -David Schwartz
>
>
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