[ale] Naked DSL from Bellsouth?

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sat January 14 2006 8:11 am, Steve Tynor wrote:
> To make a long story short, I am irritated enough at Comcast to want
> to move back to Bellsouth and pay an extra $10/month for "naked DSL"
> only to be told by the phone droids that they do not offer such a
> thing. Their website suggests they do, but google reinforces their
> story that they don't (a slew of mid-2005 press releases saying the
> FCC had reversed its ruling requiring Bellsouth to offer naked DSL).
>
> Is it true? ?Have we really reverted back to the bad old days where
> Bellsouth requires $18+ of local phone service in order to sell you
> a DSL line?

I wanted to get Vonage when I moved out here in the sticks, north of 
Athens, but all I could get was Bellsouth DSL. I also paid ( through 
the nose) extra to get a local Atlanta #, because both my ( poor) kids 
live in that area, and Mom wants them to be able to call us locally. 
I've been happy enough with DSL, though it isn't the 6Mb speed of 
cable, it is fast enough and always onlline, and works with SUSE :)

I've thought about just getting barebones phone service AND a Vonage 
line, that would probably still be cheaper than the huge bloated 
package I got from Bellsouth.. Oh for the pre-1984 days when  us 
Bellheads got free phone service..

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800