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Eric <ericw2000@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. 

yeah, my m-i-l has gotten that to work a bunch of times (she has all 3 on
uverse), but when it's coming up $40-50 more than I'd pay RCN, I doubt
they're going to be able to cut it that much.