Time Warner Looses...For Now.


	Time Warner Looses...For Now.

Tclynch

4-16-2009 11:14 PM

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time warner, caps, consumers, politics, economy

Tclynch says:

The whole cap thing was just another way for TW to screw the consumer. I was and am ready to ditch my cable and use DSL.

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