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Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote in
news:slrnjrsv34.gkq.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com: 

> smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:
>> On 5/24/2012 12:19 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> dye<dye11@adsl-64-108-195-217.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recently, I had my DSL Elite bill go up to 43 dollars, and in calls
>>>> to customer billing and finally customer retention, both of them
>>>> tried to get me to switch to Uverse, which surprised me since
>>>> Uverse isn't in Park Ridge (TV Uverse, at least - WOW and Comcrap
>>>> are the only companies w/the franchise in PR.) . . .
>>>
>>>> I forgot to ask him if my voice sevice would be analog over the
>>>> single pair, or converted to VOIP on the modem.
>>>
>>> I got forcibly converted to Uverse from DSL, which I didn't want.
>>> Like you, I'm in a "fake" Uverse area.
>>>
>>> I still have my analog telephone line.
>>>
>>> A friend just had Uverse installed. His neighborhood has real
>>> Uverse; I've seen the VRADs. However, he just got data (they
>>> wouldn't give him old-fashioned DSL). He kept his analog telephone
>>> line, too. 
>>>
>>> So, for the moment, subscribers aren't yet forced to convert to
>>> Uverse VoIP. 
>>>
>>> When I had DSL, it was billed to my home phone bill. Uverse is
>>> billed separately.
>>
>> They've been slowly wiring up a VRAD behind my place for the last two
>> months. I'm curious to see what flavor of U-Verse they're actually
>> going to offer out of it.
> 
> you'll have everything available.  They're still AT&T though, so it's
> nickel-and-dime for everything.  when I went on their website and
> spec'ed out what I wanted, the nickel-and-diming added a shitload to
> the advertised rates.

Sometimes a phone call will get you a better deal. While the advertised 
web site prices have to be low, they still have to have a spiff for the 
CS people. 

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