WATPA: Fwd: [NYATOA-List] NY Telecom News Update

From: ching wah chin <chingwchin@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 12:46:54 EST

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State says Verizon service declining
By ALLAN DRURY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 26, 2003)
In what is becoming a routine event, state regulators said yesterday
Verizon Communications Inc.'s service deteriorated in the third
quarter and predicted the company may owe its customers at least $40
million in rebates.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/112603/d0126verizon.html

Cable TV subscription rates ready to rise again
Rotterdam -- Time Warner cites higher costs for programming
By KENNETH AARON, Business writer
First published: Wednesday, November 26, 2003
In most areas, the monthly rate for basic service will increase from
$8.50 to $9, a 5.9 percent increase; those subscribing to basic and
standard service will pay $42.90, a 4.7 percent increase; and digital
subscribers will pay $53.30 a month, a 6.9 percent increase that
includes a $1 boost in the monthly cost of renting a converter needed
to use the service.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=193153&category=BUSINESS&BCCode=&newsdate=11/26/2003

There's a hang-up with cellphone service
Stephentown-- Rural parts of county are closed off and no providers
plan to institute service
By BOB GARDINIER, Staff writer
First published: Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Stephentown and some other pockets of rural eastern Rensselaer County
have no antenna towers and no wireless pager or telephone service
from any of the six local providers -- Verizon, Sprint PCS, Cingular,
Nextel, T-Mobile or newcomer AT&T Wireless.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=193155&category=REGION&newsdate=11/26/2003

Internet link that worked
Web of romance ensnares couple half a world apart
By KATIE HOLSCHER, Contributing Writer
PLATTSBURGH — Denise, 34, is from Plattsburgh. Greg, 40, is from
Melbourne, Australia. Neither of them frequented chat rooms, but, as
fate would have it, they both happened to join the same room one
night in late October 2002. "There was this guy who was annoying the
hell out of her asking these impolite questions," Greg said. "I just
thought no one should be treated like that."
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2003/11_2003/112620037.htm

Cellular customers move to switch, keep their number
By ALLAN DRURY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 25, 2003)
Wireless phone stores saw a boomlet of customers yesterday as some
cellular users decided to take advantage of the Federal
Communications Commission's ruling. Thousands of other customers
sought to make carrier switches by calling customer service numbers
or by going to the Internet.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/112503/d01a25cellphones.html
There was no stampede, but area cell phone stores were busy
Cell users now can switch firms, keep their old number
By LISA HAARLANDER
News Business Reporter
11/25/2003
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031125/1058285.asp
Cell phone users ring in a new era
November 25, 2003
By Tim Knauss
Staff writer
http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business
-4/1069754463239372.xml

Cellular swap is on, but not here
- Twin Tiers must wait to use new phone rules.
By GEORGE OSGOOD
Star-Gazette
BIG FLATS -- It's noon on Monday and customers pack the Verizon store
at Consumer Square, buzzing around the service counter like bees
around a puddle of Pepsi.
http://www.stargazettenews.com/local/Tulocal1.html

Adelphia to raise rates 6.7%
By BRIAN MEYER
News Staff Reporter
11/25/2003
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031125/1056508.asp

Computers take their place beside tractors as farm 'essentials'
Web connects farmers to ads, research -- and each other
BY CONNIE NOGAS
Press & Sun-Bulletin
WINDSOR -- Steve Herz spends just as much time behind his computer as
he does in the barn of his Windsor Morgan horse farm.
http://www.pressconnects.com/monday/news/stories/ne112403s47948.shtml

Sign with new provider, but keep cell number
Cellular customers prepare to churn the market Monday, possibly
changing companies.
November 23, 2003
By Tim Knauss
Staff writer
http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business
-4/1069581395173133.xml
Cell phone firms say they're ready for 'wireless emancipation' on
Monday
By BRUCE MEYERSON
Associated Press
11/23/2003
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031123/1004582.asp

Cell phone talk is not cheap, governments find
Counties switch plans, do frequent reviews to contain
telecommunications costs.
November 23, 2003
By Amy Hsuan
Contributing writer
Many governments statewide overspend on telephone and cell phone
bills simply because they don't have the right plan, according to a
study released by the State Comptroller's office in September.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
13/1069581425173130.xml

Stakes are high in Corning-Verizon talks
- Company needs to be player in fiber-to-home boom.
Corning Watch column by LARRY WILSON
Star-Gazette
CORNING -- When Verizon Communications announced last week it had
chosen the first suppliers for its planned rollout of optical fiber
connections to homes and offices, Corning Inc. was not among them.
The panic appears to have been premature
http://www.stargazettenews.com/local/Sulocal15.html

Man Charged in Internet Sting
Cops: Thought he was e-mailing teen
By Theresa Vargas and Beth Holland
STAFF WRITERS
November 23, 2003
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-
nytoy233556154nov23,0,5793817.story?coll=ny-linews-archive

The highs and lows of high-tech growth
Albany -- Panelists project possible positive and negative effects on
the region
By JAMES M. ODATO, Staff writer
First published: Sunday, November 23, 2003
Even if it creates the thousands of well-paying jobs envisioned by
promoters, the rise of high-technology businesses in the region won't
create an urban utopia as long as the current growth patterns hold, a
planner told neighborhood groups Saturday.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=192247&category=REGION&newsdate=11/23/2003

Cablevision announces rate increases
By ALLAN DRURY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 22, 2003)
Customers of Cablevision Systems Corp. will pay an average of $1.59
more for service in 2004 under a schedule of prices the company
released late yesterday.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/112203/d0122cablevision.html

Jury duty calls labeled phony
(November 22, 2003)
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is warning residents that someone
is making fraudulent phone calls requesting personal information
under the guise of needing information for upcoming jury duty
summonses.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/1122232ERAD_newsbeat22_news.s
html

Satellite services beam in on cable TV cost
By Frank Bilovsky
Staff writer
(November 22, 2003)
Time Warner's increase is making some people take a second look at
the lower prices of DirecTV or the Dish Network, Time Warner's two
major satellite competitors here.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1122V22EQU6_cable22_busine
ss.shtml

Cell changes won't affect Tier until '04
Numbers can change carriers
BY MY-LY NGUYEN
Press & Sun-Bulletin
The Federal Communications Commission's mandate starting Monday
requiring cellular companies to offer customers the option of taking
their phone numbers with them when they switch carriers is unlikely
to have a large impact on Binghamton-area wireless subscribers until
next year.
http://www.pressconnects.com/saturday/business/stories/bu112203s47468.
shtml

Students' Web pages put spin on careers
BY CONNIE NOGAS
Press & Sun-Bulletin
NEWARK VALLEY -- Newark Valley isn't the only district using students
or former students to design or update Web sites. A few years ago,
Susquehanna Valley Central School students helped create the
district's Web site. (Staffers now update it.) Union-Endicott
graduate Chris Lidaka designed U-E's site. His younger brother,
Jonathan, a 2001 U-E graduate and junior at the University of
Buffalo, began redesigning the site last summer and is still working
on it.
http://www.pressconnects.com/saturday/news/stories/ne112203s47487.shtm
l

Time Warner to hike cable rates
By G. JEFFREY AARON
Star-Gazette
The 78-channel Standard service will rise in January by almost two
dollars a month, from $32.63 to $34.62. The 13-channel Lifeline
package, the most basic service, will increase by 30 cents a month,
from $8.65 now to $8.95.
http://www.stargazettenews.com/local/Frlocal3.html

Hey, That Big Computer Is Really a Great Actor
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: November 20, 2003
ALBANY, Nov. 19 — The project is called the Technology Plays, a
theater experiment that is trying to take the old man-versus-machine
theme to new extremes. The writers, led by Mr. Dresser and Mr.
Kennedy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ironweed," have
fashioned an unsettling exhibition challenging conventional notions
of what theater can be and how it can be delivered.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/20/arts/theater/20TECH.html

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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