AlexNYC
join:2001-06-02
Edwards, CO
| Broadband - hardly
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more than two million broadband customers
The term "broadband" is kind of a stretch when describing CenturyTel's DSL service ....  |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
 ·Comcast
 ·Qwest.net
 ·magicjack.com
 ·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Are you one of the people sitting on a 256k connection? If so then I pity you if that's all you can get in your area. Otherwise, shush...I'd much rather have 512k over DSL than 512k over a shaky WISP, and 1.5/256 would be great here. Then again, CenTel...er...CenLink won't be taking my area over any time soon so it's a moot point.
FWIW, while service could be better at peak times, my experience of a family member's Embarq connection (3072/640 due to loop length) was enjoyable, even with interleave. Sure, 10/896 isn't next-gen, but the merged entity just might be able to upgrade infrastructure and give better service to everyone in their footprint.
As a potential plus for Embarq customers, CenTel has a regional backbone network (Lightcore) and Embarq doesn't. Then again, Embarq's typical bandwidth mix (Sprint + Level3) isn't bad at all... |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | On the bright side, you could be an area where all you could get is HughesNet or Wild Blue. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | USF
So what happened to the USF reform that was supposed to stamp out billing corporate salaries to the USF? Are these companies loosing USF billing rights, or keeping them? |
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robl27
Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | how about offering competition?
I hope this new merger will bring stiffer competition and fiber so that other ISP's will have to stretch out to the 21'st century and hopefully lower prices. if this new century link offered say 50/5 for $50.00 bye bye cox
-Rob |
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Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
| said by robl27  :I hope this new merger will bring stiffer competition and fiber so that other ISP's will have to stretch out to the 21'st century and hopefully lower prices. if this new century link offered say 50/5 for $50.00 bye bye cox -Rob Once they take over, it will be them, and Comcast here, now if they can offer something Comcast can't for a better deal, I will think about it. |
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Gaff
Every Villain Is Lemons
join:1999-09-05
Mineral Wells, TX
clubs:
·AT&T Southwest
·Suddenlink
| The great link
What is it with "link" these days?
Cebridge + Cox MAC = Suddenlink
Now Embarq + Centurytel = Centurylink
What's next? Pepsi + Coke = PepsiLink?
Microsoft + Google = MicroLink?
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | reply to Karl Bode
Re: Broadband - hardly
Or not have either due to trees in the way of the sat... |
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gatorkram
Spelling and Grammer impared
Premium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
clubs:
·Embarq
 ·linode
| reply to Gaff
Re: The great link
said by Gaff :What is it with "link" these days? Cebridge + Cox MAC = Suddenlink Now Embarq + Centurytel = Centurylink What's next? Pepsi + Coke = PepsiLink? Microsoft + Google = MicroLink? Yeah, and I get both of them here for my services...
Suddenlink (suddenly your link is gone)
Centurylink (all our equipment is 100 years old)
Woohooo... Oh....wait...
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Give me bandwidth or give me death!
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rabeatz
Premium
join:2009-03-21
Apopka, FL | reply to iansltx
Re: Broadband - hardly
That lightcore network also has plans for expansion into EQ territories, and across the US in their territories, throughout 2009-2012 |
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rabeatz
Premium
join:2009-03-21
Apopka, FL | reply to robl27
Re: how about offering competition?
I have heard that there will be market based competition - meaning areas will be divided into regional markets, and the prices will be adjusted to compete with their biggest competitors in the area. |
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chd176
join:2003-01-10
Winfield, AL
·CenturyLink
| reply to AlexNYC
Re: Broadband - hardly
In almost all areas they have 10/768 available if you're close enough to the RT/CO then they have 20/2 If you're lucky enough to have FTTH
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10,000/768 CenturyTel PPPoE DSL line (really 5,000/768  ) Now it's really 1500/256...again lol |
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dsldude08
Premium,VIP
join:2008-01-03
La Crosse, WI | 20/3 |
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AlexNYC
join:2001-06-02
Edwards, CO
| reply to AlexNYC
The best they have to offer within a 100 mile radius (maybe more) is 1500/256 and even when I had that, I was not getting even half of those speeds due to their utterly oversubscribed and badly managed network. A name change to CenturyHELL would be more like it ... |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | reply to rabeatz
Hmm, wonder if that means cheaper local bandwidth for WISPs where CenLink won't reach? |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | That would be cool if they did cause that could mean cheaper bandwidth for the WISP I use. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
·Comcast
·Qwest.net
·magicjack.com
·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| That's assuming your ISP touches the local phone system. From your forum posts (going off the top of my head here) they appear to have their own wireless distribution system back to Kansas City. I might be wrong, but if they don't buy telco circuits their bandwidth costs won't change.
Though if CenLink hooks together their backbone well enough for cheap enough other providers might come in due to cheaper startup costs (lot less expensive to start out with a few T1s than to build a wireless distribution system) and introduce competition into the area.
So I suppose the biggest factor in pricing such stuff out is competition. Though it seems cable companies tend to be cheaper than telcos for everything like this, albeit at lower quality levels... |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL |  Will CenturyLink Stink?
 If CenturyLink adopts CenturyTel's pricing for broadband service CenturyLink will stink. On the other hand if CenturyLink adopts Embarq's pricing, smell not so much! |
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Agent 86
@comcast.net | A company living a century in the past
CenturyLink is your connection to 100 year old communication technology...combined with modern customer service. |
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moreinfo09
@centurytel.net
| Map
Here is the map of the network, including future 4G wireless coverage (700Mhz)... |
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