Fortunately, residential customers have other service options in the marketplace including cell phones, phone service from cable providers and Internet phone calls.

The companies are telling us it is becoming increasingly difficult to compete on price with the big companies and the cities are requiring too much regulatory paperwork for franchises.

While we are still seeing competitors add more customers the survey indicates the rate of growth is showing signs of slowing somewhat.

I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.

It's a great referral service, but it doesn't deliver on direct selling over the Internet. We are the only site offering end-to-end health insurance shopping.

We're delivering on what we believe may be the stickiest service ever on the Internet.