You may very well be right Pat. Also, SBC offers minimum bandwith for the minimum price. I am in an SBC area in California also served by Cox Cable. Sure, Cox charges $35 a month for broadband cable, but for bandwith that SBC probably can't even deliver to most residential customers via DSL. And, where facilities will permit that kind of bandwidth with DSL, the price would be far higher than $35.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Plus which, when I first went to cable instead of SBC DSL, I had it turned on and running in 20 minutes. It took me five minutes to get to the CableOne office downtown in a cab, five minutes of talking to the lady (she typed on her computer and turned on my internet; I already have their cable TV) and five to ten minutes waiting for the cab to pick me up and get back home. I assumed it would take a few days or whatever, but the lady in the office said 'internet will be up and active when you get back home', and it was.There was a time we here in Independence got the same service from Southwestern Bell. At the central office on the corner of 6th and Maple, on the first floor there were two cashiers plus a service rep on duty; you could walk in to talk to them, pay your bill, and get whatever changes you needed on your line. You told the rep what you wanted to do, she _actually understood what you wanted_ and would call upstairs to the guy in the frames and have the work done. Then one day, the rep disappeared and was replaced by a speed dial phone and a little counter to stand at while you were talking on the phone to Fort Worth or wherever. Then a couple months after that, the cashiers also disappeared and a note on the door said to use the phone located there to call customer service. Then one day, that phone was taken away also. If that's how they wish to run things, that's their business, but I like at least some modicum of personal service, which I recieve from Prairie Stream and CableOne, both of whom have a presence right here in town, easy to walk to and deal with. PAT]