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Article #50Re: bellsouth is so stupid--hope Telocity is available in N. Raleigh
From: cdronob
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 00:00
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Hate to have to tell you this,but telocity relies on bellsouth for linetesting and routing thru their dslam equipment,then you have to rely on telocity's personnel to get your order right and in my experience thats not to likely,been trying to get their service since early Nov.somebody keeps dropping the ball finally orered from bellsouth installing tomorrow In article <83rf7o$7rs$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, disgruntled bellsouth customer <rfc1122@my-deja.com> wrote: > Ordered Bellsouth ADSL 3 weeks ago. Install is scheduled for tomorrow. > > Just received a call today that they couldn't test my line because of > an address conflict. I verified the address as correct. It is the > same address they send my phone bills too. It is the same address > they have come to on two separate occasions to fix line problems. > Apparently the guy who is supposed to test the phone line can't read > a map. I live in an apartment building and the street only exists > within the complex and is about 300 meters long. It is on any Thomas > bros. map printed within the last 5 years. Fed Ex and UPS make > deliveries here all the time--I guess Fed Ex and UPS have higher > intelligence/educational requirements for their drivers than > Bellsouth has for their telecomunications technicians. I don't > know if I want one of these dumbasses in my house now. > > The sad part is they have a big building on Strickland. > From my porch, using a 7 iron, I can hit a golf ball and hit their > building. > > What a bunch of idiots. Now I got bounced back another 3 weeks. > After reading all the stuff on this group I knew something would go > wrong. But I expected a more exotic excuse: Time Warner-trained > squirrels eating wires, lightning strike, the-two-weeks-before-Y2K-bug > bug, something... but an imaginary address conflict 100 meters from a > major Bellsouth maintenance structure? > > The only reason I wanted Bellsouth is my company pays for > my phone bill and internet and Telocity can't put it on my > phone bill. So I will just have to send in two bills instead. > A small price to pay to be free of their crappy service. > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1122a6,29a50f98280604e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1122a6,public X-Google-Thread: 10bdad,29a50f98280604e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bdad,public From: cdronob@yahoo.com Subject: Re: bellsouth is so stupid--hope Telocity is available in N. Raleigh Date: 1999/12/23 Message-ID: <83s1hv$kou$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Deja-AN: 563960502 References: <83rf7o$7rs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x37.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 63.14.37.32 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Dec 23 02:31:27 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDronob Newsgroups: triangle.online-access,bellsouth.net.support.adsl X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; MSNIA; Windows 98; DigExt)