Verizon Offers Passaic Cheaper Cable ; Says Franchise Would Undercut Cablevision (Telephone search)

Verizon Offers Passaic Cheaper Cable ; Says Franchise Would Undercut Cablevision
By ALEXANDER MacINNES, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD PASSAIC - City residents could surf new channels, and possibly see lower cable television bills, if the city approves an application by Verizon to offer cable television to their telephone and Internet customers.
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State lets phone companies raise basic rates
Albany A scaled-back measure allowing telephone companies to raise basic rates 46 percent, from $8.61 to $12.61, was approved Tuesday by the state Public Service Commission.
Source: www.syracuse.com

Phone Taps Just Got Impossible
April 12, 2006: Eavesdropping on phone calls just got a lot harder. Phil Zimmermann, the guy who invented PGP encryption for Internet mail, has developed a similar product, Zfone, for VOIP (telephone calls over the Internet). Zfone, like PGP, is free and easy to use.
Source: www.strategypage.com