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PPTP - stupidscript@hotmail.com wrote: In our apartment complex in Denver, Colorado we cannot choose our broadband ISP. Apparently, the owner of the building has a contract of some kind with American Communications of Greenwood, Indiana to provide all broadband Internet access to the building. We have no choice in the matter. The cable company that serves our area, Comcast, can only provide cable television. They cannot provide cable Internet access due to the agreement between American Communications and the building owner. I can't use satellite because my apartment is not south-facing and the owner won't allow a dish to be set up on the other side of the building for my use. Only that side of the building can get satellite. American Communications (no website, by the way) has terrible service, with my DSL going down for a couple of hours every week. Calls to tech support result in instructions to power-cycle my DSL modem, and when that does nothing, they schedule service technicians to arrive "within 3 business days". There is no service level agreement, so I'm often without access for up to 5 days at a time (including weekends) before their tech shows up and decides it's a problem outside the building or at the C.O. or on some telephone pole somewhere. How can that contract between AC and the owner be legal? Aren't the phone lines required to be available to be leased by third parties per current FCC regulations?Phone Lines? Cable? I'm confused. What does Broadband running on CABLEhave to do with your PHONE LINE and DSL? I suggest that you post thissituation to the appropriate forum at:http://www.broadbandreports.com/forums/allBTW: IF SBC (StupidBrainlessCustomer) is your telco: you ARE better offwhere you are. :D Someone please tell me what I can do or where I can look for help with this. It's very frustrating. Thank you in advance for any help.
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