READY, WILLING, CABLE

IN LETTING LOOSE THE GIANTS, DOES CONGRESS HAVE CONSUMERS IN MIND?

Greetings, dear telephone customer! are you bewildered by all the marketing pitches for long-distance service that AT&T;, MCI and Sprint have been hurling at you? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Consider what's come until now as basic training for the blitzkrieg of packages and special offers that will arrive once Congress moves to deregulate local telephone service and cable-TV and let eager new competitors charge into that field, bringing business rivalries, price wars, heated local politics and...yes, of course, TV linkups over phone lines and phone calls via cable. "Things will go insane in terms of all the different features...

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