[ale] Bycotting B$

[James Sumners]

This thread should be of particular interest to Speed Factory customers (and
potential ones): http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10817052~mode=flat

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:25:02 -0400
Fletch <fletch at phydeaux.org> wrote:

> >>>>> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey  <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>     Geoffrey> I'm the same, the first chance I have to stop giving
>     Geoffrey> them money, I'll be on top of it.  Right now, I have to
>     Geoffrey> have there phone service in order to get dsl through
>     Geoffrey> another provider, I'm hoping that will change soon.  I'm
>     Geoffrey> not about to drop the phone service and go with the
>     Geoffrey> cable monopoly.
> 
> Now take this as unsubstantiated scuttlebutt if you will, but a month
> or so ago I was riding MARTA (speaking of monopolys providing dodgy
> service :) home and overheard a couple of guys with BLS name badges
> talking and one of them said that because of regulatory changes that
> you could get BLS DSL service without being required to have a
> landline from them.  I have no more details than that and haven't
> tried to find out anything more (although I am considering calling up
> speedfactory and seeing if I can get something faster than the IDSL
> that's all that speakeasy seems to be able to offer me).
> 
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