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Re: Covad, Speakeasy and their lack of service and complete incompetence.

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From: Monkeyboy
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:00
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I have just (in fact) ordered Rhythms Residential Service IDSL to my house
in Chatham County (zip and mailing code of Apex).

I am hoping/praying that I will not encounter the same kind of incompetence
with my install.

Lyman

"Don Brady" <dbrady@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:10:06 -0500, "Vaughn" <vaughn@vebuck.com> wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately many, if not most, of the ISP's started with dial up
service
> >where the equipment was in their shops and as such, under their control.
> >The new system has lots of problems.  I'm going through my own issues and
I
> >personally feel that Covad is the major problem.  They have the ISP's
> >convinced that the is the ILEC's (and I'm sure it is partially), but
their
> >own handling lacks a lot.  I'm trying to find an ISP who will offer
> >Northpoint or Rythms, but all in my area seem to deal with Covad for
> >residential service.  I could probably sell a hundred users in my
> >neighborhood (1,100 homes) but won't until they take a customer first
> >attitude.
>
> Phoenix Networks will be offering Rhythms DSL to residence users in many
areas
> in the next couple of months.
>
> See http://www.phoenixnetworks.net/getdsl.html
>
>
>
>
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From: "Monkeyboy" <daerid@io.com>
Subject: Re: Covad, Speakeasy and their lack of service and complete incompetence.
Date: 2000/02/23
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