PANORA FIBER • WWW.PANORAFIBER.COM • 641 . 755 . 2424 IN PANORA • 641 . 332 . 2000 IN GUTHRIE CENTER We’re Up Against Skyrocketing Retransmission Fees The programming rates that Panora Fiber must pay to networks continue to rise. We work hard to keep TV rates affordable, but the deck is stacked against us. Eight giant corporations own or control nearly 90% of today’s networks. This example helps illustrate our challenges. A gallon of milk cost about $3.25 in 2010, and costs about $3.34 today — an increase of 0.2% from 2010 to 2023. During that same period, local TV station fees increased yearly by about 21%. If a gallon of milk increased at that rate, it would cost $51.24 today! Panora Fiber is now negotiating retransmission fees with legal assistance from industry partners. However, increases in TV rates are inevitable. If you have questions or concerns about your TV service with us, call our Panora office at 641.755.2424 or our Guthrie Center office at 641.332.2000. Thanks for Choosing Panora Fiber We know you have choices in communications providers and appreciate your choice of Panora Fiber. When you buy local and get your internet and related services from us, you support a locally owned and operated business. Our employees are also your friends and neighbors, and we live, work, shop, play, and worship together. You can count on Panora Fiber to always keep you connected. Help Prevent Your Facebook Account from Being Cloned Account cloning is when a scammer creates a new Facebook account in your name and populates it with photos and personal information they’ve copied from your real account. They then use the new fake account to send friend requests to all the people on your real account’s friends list. Since it appears to the friends receiving the friend request that it was sent by you, some of them will accept it. This results in those friends now also being a “friend” with the scammer who created the cloned Facebook account. Can you stop scammers from cloning your account? While there’s no foolproof way to do it, you can reduce the likelihood your account will be cloned by hiding your friends list from the public. (By default, the Friends section of your profile is public, meaning everyone can see it.) If you adjust the setting from “Public” to “Only me,” it will make your Facebook account a less attractive target for cloning because the scammer wouldn’t know who to send friend requests to from the cloned account. To adjust who can see your Friends section: 1. Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook. 2. Select Settings & privacy, then click Settings. 3. In the left column, click Privacy. 4. Look for the setting Who can see your friends list? and click Edit to the far right. 5. Select the audience of people (such as Only me) you'd like to have access to your friends list. It’s also a good idea to limit the audience of your Facebook posts to friends, rather than sharing them publicly, to help keep information away from scammers. You can do this by adjusting your default audience under Facebook’s privacy settings.
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