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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

Lyman Green wrote:
> Well, according to BellSouth's mailings and website, my address (and the
> old phone number) qualify for FastAccess DSL.  This is a considerably
> faster and nicer (and cheaper!!!) DSL service.  Unfortunately I've
> discovered that you cannot order FastAccess DSL from Bellsouth without
> having actual services of some kind from BellSouth.  The sales reps were
> actually quite suprised to hear that I had any kind of DSL at all without
> having an actual "working" (their definition of working is apparently that
> I have to have a phone number from them and be paying their outrageous
> prices for services) phone line.

I encountered the same Catch-22 from Verizon in Durham.  It's a question 
of policy, not technology.  Legacy policy and tunnel vision.

TaB