San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazarus points out how Comcast is still letting Bay Area customers sign up for their older $10 coax-run phone service. "Comcast's Digital Phone service dates back to the late 1990s, when what was then AT&T Broadband, the cable division of long-distance provider AT&T, had sought to do an end run around rival SBC and compete for local phone customers," he observes. Lazarus notes it's really only a deal if you're largely using the line for local calling, but Comcast won't force users to migrate to newer digital voice.