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Article #506Re: why the push for DSL->Uverse
From: Michele Goudie
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:03
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:03
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On 5/24/2012 9:00 AM, smr 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. > We've got one of those in the alleyway, got it about 18 months ago. Still no Uverse TV, just DSL. Oh wait. They upped our speed 10 percent a few weeks ago. Woo. Fucking. Hoo.
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