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["G.Wolfe Woodbury" <ggw AT wolves.durham.nc.us>]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:07:28PM -0500, Lyman Green wrote:
> FWIW, I had Bellsouth DSL while in Chatham County, and I had rock solid 
> 3Mbs service.  I didn't keep the service in Morrisville due to BellSouth's 
> horrible pricing scheme and unpleasant billing practices, but the technical 
> side of the service worked fine.  I have not yet seen a DSL service that 
> ends up being cheaper than Cable Modem.  Does Verizon DSL have a similar 
> billing policy as BellSouth's that says you cannot have a DSL line without 
> an associated phone line?  The cheapest phone line Bellsouth would sell me 
> was still 23 or 24 dollars a month and when you threw that on top of the 
> DSL price it was more by far than TimeWarner's cable service.  AND TWC is 
> faster.
> 
> Caveat: I don't use a landline and haven't for some years now.  I only got 
> one from BS because of that asinine billing policy.  And they tried to get 
> me to keep the service in the end by offering me a month or two's free 
> service.  I laughed.

FWIW There are rumours that VOL *will* do dry DSL (w/o dial tone) but
its service area is limited and I don't know if NC has the appropriate
tarrif.  They will *not* install a copper pair just for residential DSL.

Check http://www.dslreports.com for lots of information.

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G.Wolfe Woodbury     `- -'
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