[ale] Naked DSL from Bellsouth?

[William Fragakis]

If you haven't before, it may be worthwhile having a Comcast tech come 
out and test your connection. My connection was awful and on a recent 
call on something unrelated, they found my connection on the street to 
be "lacking" - a tilt (frequency equalization) issue.

I've been a much happier camper since.

regards,
William
On Jan 14, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> 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..
>
> -- 
> Paul Cartwright
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