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Ctrl - Lisa Hancock wrote: I have found Verizon service to be very good. My long distance costs went down and service quality went up when they were allowed to offer their own long distance. I dumped AT&T. Verizon had to enlarge their central office and worked hard with the town to preserve nearby Victorian homes (which they owned; one was the exchange 50 years ago) as well as make the building fit into the historic district. Part of the need for enlargement was to accomodate competitor's switchgear.I suppose it depends on region. Here in central NJ, the story is verydifferent. Dial tone has been slow in many instances, and last years'northeast blackout took out phone service with it (apparently theirbattery setup at the central office was not operational when theblackout hit, and neither local nor LD calls could not route even fora few hours after power was restored; cell phone service actually wasMORE reliable than wireline during that period). I tried broadbandthrough Verizon for quite a while, but the frequent downtimes of aweek+ drove me crazy. The last straw was when somehow, my localcalling area shrunk to about half what it used to be, and suddenlycalls that used to be local (including my cell phone which wasprovisioned in the same city, the number to which hasn't changed inover seven years) all of a sudden weren't. I'm sure I could havefought it, but it was far less effort to simply move to VoIP and stopgiving Verizon my money. I guess it depends on where you live. Cable and telephone have both been prevailing regulated monopolies for a long time, and depending on where you live, one or the other is the lesser of two evils that you must pick from. If only DBS didn't have such a horrible latency problem, we could all drop both services. I thought cable TV was deregulated nationally;Yes, however in many cases there are still municipal franchiseagreements that regulate their operation. Certain premium local telephone services have been deregulated, but AFAIK in my area the price has not gone up.Again, depends on where you live. Phone service prices have risen here;cable has not. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Comcast, but in myparticular case they've screwed me far less than ol' Ma Bell.E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
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