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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.