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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.

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