We all know how Best Buy loves to love their customers when you go in to buy a suped up car stereo system and then they proceed to up sale you just about everything but the car itself, well now in its latest venture Best Buy has teamed up with Microsoft, Cox and TimeWarner Cable to actually leave you with a few dollars in your wallet and get online with broadband. In a program the call “Connect to Compete” these companies are offering one megabit/sec broadband links to anyone who is at a low income level. Their plan will help level the playing field for families and children who are less fortunate by bringing the vast recourses of the internet to their home allowing them to connect others, companies and other organizations already online. To get on their new super fast connection, Microsoft is offering computers loaded with great software for around $250 – a very thrifty price indeed. This program is targeting the 35 million or so households that do not have internet or are on an old terribly slow snail connection. Best Buy we do like you, but this time we have to give you big cudos along with your partners because “You done did GOOD!” – The day that everyone has access to the internet will be amazing because anyone can create and share their gifts with anyone. From all of us here at UsenetGeeks – “Long live the internet!”
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