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[US] Some electric utilities offer cable

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03-02-2003 12:45pm

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If you ever wince after opening your cable bill, you're not going to like this: The good folks in Glasgow, Kentucky pay $19 a month for 70 cable channels, and for an additional $25 they can get blazing fast Internet access.

How do they get prices nearly half the national average?

Because the city-owned electric utility provides cable TV and Internet access over wires that also monitor power usage in the town of 14,000. The utility isn't trying to profit from the service -- just recover its costs.

Utility superintendent William Ray estimates that since Glasgow began offering cable in 1989, $32 million of residents' money has stayed in town that otherwise might have been vacuumed by giant telecommunications companies -- which often don't offer advanced services in rural areas like Glasgow anyway.

"It's like an armored car wrecking in the streets once a year and spreading money in the streets for people to grab for themselves," Ray says.

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