[ale] Bellsouth again.

[James Sumners]

I really doubt you will convince Speedfactory to sell you service at
lower than the advertised price. They are basically a Bellsouth DSL
reseller. When you sign up for Speedfactory they send a request to
Bellsouth to have DSL provisioned on your line. You pay Speedfactory
to deal with Bellsouth on your behalf; I assume it would be the same
thing if you signed up for Atlantic Nexus (cheaper than Speedfactory).
Bellsouth has a stranglehold on the Atlanta area. If you want to do
anything over the phone line it will, at some point, go through them.

I am shocked at the price Ken said he is paying for basic telephone
service. I couldn't get them to give me service for any cheaper than
$38 (after fees). The only "feature" I had was caller-id. I tried to
get Bellsouth to give me the toll plan where every outgoing call costs
25? or something, but they said it isn't offered in my area. Since I
wanted to stay with Speedfactory I had no choice but to pay Bellsouth
$38/mo. Completely ridiculous.


On 10/10/06, Mark Wright <mpwright at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> I called BS again today and talked to another sales / support
> person.  She put me on hold to ask about the phone number
> requirement.  It took me a while to get her to understand what I was
> asking.  They are much to eager too wag their heads yes even if they
> don't know what you are talking about.  When she finally understood I
> wanted DSL without a Bell south phone number she said she had never
> heard of that before.  When she asked her supervisor the answer she
> came back and said no.
>
> Bummer too, I called Speakeasy and they can't do Naked DSL in
> Woodstock.  I am going to give speed factory a chance to give me a
> price break.  They are $22 a month more than Bell.

-- 
James Sumners
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
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