[ale] Free USB Drive

[Geoffrey]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Bellsouth DSL is more than Cable, looked into em before.  I've heard
> both real good and real bad about them.  I've had absolutely zero
> problems with my regular phone service through them.  Next time I feel
> like nuking charter from space I'll take another look at BellSouth DSL
> probably.

Personal experience says, they don't care about customer service.  Grant 
it, phone service just works.  The few times I've had problems, they 
just didn't give a damn.

1. Took them 5 days and 7 people to get my office line 'busy forward' 
set up.  I was told it would be within 24 hours.  The last person I 
talked to was a supervisor.  I told her, with this kind of service, I 
should look at AT&T for local service and get rid of both my Bell south 
lines.  She very plainly asked me if I would like her to connect me.  I 
said to what?  She said to the department that could help me terminate 
my service.

2. When they were running iftl through my old neighborhood, I noticed my 
2nd line light on my phone would light up a lot and stay lit, until I 
picked the phone up and it would sound like someone was hanging up my 
phone.  I figured they'd cross the lines or something.  The next time it 
happened, I picked up the phone and hear this guy doing the sweet talk 
on some girl.  Turns out, the guys running the iftl would hook into my 
line whenever they needed to make a call.  I actually approached them 
about it and they told me it was common practice, but they always 
selected the 2nd line going to house, because they figured it was for 
either dialup or a fax.

Now to me, they're stealing my service as well as possibly causing folks 
who might be calling me to get a busy signal.  I left 6 messages with 
their supervisor who never returned my call.

It still happens here in my new home.

I'll never do any business with Bell South unless it's going to cause me 
extreme pain or money.  I'd have changed local service months ago, but 
you've got to have BellSouth to get dsl here.
> 
> 
> 
> Thus spake Christopher Fowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):
> 
> 
>>I think it looks pretty cool.  I wonder how much the service is?
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 15:48, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>>
>>>  http://contact.bellsouth.com/business/metro/freeusb/
>>>
>>>Probably get added to all the lists, etc.  I didn't see any fine print
>>>though that'd make me puke.
>>>
>>>
>>>:wq!
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> Robert L. Harris                     | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B
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