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| Another stupid Verizon thread? The DSL deployment was a joke and so will VOIP! It doesn't matter to me because Verizon refuses to invest and roll out services! How are they going to push this with nonexistant equipment? Have you tryed to get DSL lately? |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by FuchYoo:
How are they going to push this with nonexistant equipment? Have you tryed to get DSL lately?
Exactly... is Verizon even relevant anymore these days?
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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kudos:4 | Why bother? if you got verizon, you are already paying the BS/junk fees. theres nothing to get away from.
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 GNXPowerGot Boost?Premium
join:2003-12-18
Huntington Beach, CA | reply to FuchYoo
said by FuchYoo:
The DSL deployment was a joke and so will VOIP! It doesn't matter to me because Verizon refuses to invest and roll out services! How are they going to push this with nonexistant equipment? Have you tryed to get DSL lately?
Yeah, I "TRYED" to get DSL and had no problem getting it. It would be a nice change to ditch POTS for dry pair DSL and VoIP. I run both VOL and Comcrap and if I just used it for surfing, playing games adn occasional downloads, my $30 DSL would do just as well (actually better because of the unlimited use and freebees) as my $45 Comcrap service. Dropping the POTS requirement and offering VoIP makes their already attractive DSL products more so.
Don't like DSL, stick with Comcrap.
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 TamaraBQuestion The Current ParadigmPremium
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It would be a nice change to ditch POTS for dry pair DSL and VoIP.
There was a thread here recently about »Naked DSL based in part on this article: »news.com.com/Verizon+to+offer+'n···095.html
I will be trying to remove my POTS service soon now that I have dsl on the copper.
Bob
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to GNXPower
said by GNXPower:
Yeah, I "TRYED" to get DSL and had no problem getting it.
But most everyone in the old Bell Atlantic territory have also tried to get DSL but to no avail. Verizon has done nothing to make DSL available to us. In my state its been nearly 6 years since Verizon first started selling DSL (if you lived within a foot of the CO) but since then they have done nothing to expand their service areas at all. I think you just got lucky because you were in the old GTE territory.
Meanwhile, Comcast and most other cable companies serving Penna. customers have made broadband available.
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to TamaraB
said by TamaraB:
I will be trying to remove my POTS service soon now that I have dsl on the copper.
Good luck. I doubt Verizon is going to make it easy for you to ditch POTS without screwing up your DSL service in some way.
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TamaraBQuestion The Current ParadigmPremium
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said by pnh102:
But most everyone in the old Bell Atlantic territory have also tried to get DSL but to no avail. Verizon has done nothing to make DSL available to us.
I know. I moved to my current location about a year ago, got pots service and tried to get DSL. The claim was that my loop length was way over the 18,000 foot max.
Then, two weeks ago, in my bill I noticed that it said I was "pre-qualified" for dsl. So I went to the VZ website, and ordered. I was up within 5 days! My loop-length is now just under 16,000 feet. Verizon has found a way to shrink copper 
Try again,as if you never have tried before, never know, perhaps your copper has shrunk as well 
Bob
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by TamaraB:
Try again,as if you never have tried before, never know, perhaps your copper has shrunk as well
I should, but that would require me to get a telegraph line I don't need
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New Kensington, PA | reply to TamaraB
said by TamaraB:
said by pnh102:
Then, two weeks ago, in my bill I noticed that it said I was "pre-qualified" for dsl. So I went to the VZ website, and ordered. I was up within 5 days! My loop-length is now just under 16,000 feet. Verizon has found a way to shrink copper
My loop keeps coming down also. I started at about 27,000' last August and now I'm down to 22,000'. Getting closer.
I'd rather have DSL than Adelphia Powerlink but I'm stuck with Powerlink until VZ expands service.
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You live in King of Prussia, PA. That's in Lancaster County, I go down there every couple weeks. It's all rural, there is some places that are sorta populated but don't BS me and tell me it's easy to install DSL. I live in a town in Northern NJ, about 15 miles from New York City, and I can't get speeds higher then 320/128 from Verizon DSL. If they won't install a Remote Terminal here, what makes you think they'll do it for a market of farmland? I mean come on! You got Route 30 and those strip malls but right behind it is farmland. I always hear commercials for Comcast cable when I listen to the radio when I'm out in Lancaster County, so stick with that... But since you got it what's to complain about? Also just so you know Verizon is installing FTTP (Fiber to the Premise) in Bergen County, NJ. I saw the fiber trucks in my town today. They are rapidly installing it and I'm going to have fiber hopefully by 2005.
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by ooluser:
You live in King of Prussia, PA. That's in Lancaster County, I go down there every couple weeks. It's all rural, there is some places that are sorta populated but don't BS me and tell me it's easy to install DSL.
No, you don't. Because King of Prussia is in Montgomery County, not Lancaster Country. This place is nowhere near rural. I used to live in West Chester, PA however (Chester County) and could not get DSL at my residence there. Because of my dissatisfaction with Verizon at my old residence, I didn't even bother to see if DSL was available at my current residence. Cable modems, however, are available in both areas.
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Strongsville, OH | Come on...you know you checked if it was available. Don't even lie. If you visit this site then you know you have looked into it. I don't believe that for a second! LOL!!! |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Come on...you know you checked if it was available. Don't even lie. If you visit this site then you know you have looked into it. I don't believe that for a second! LOL!!!
No, I really didn't bother to ask about DSL because everywhere else I looked, it wasn't available. Unlike every other Baby Bell, Verizon/Bell Atlantic just refuses to expand their DSL service areas. I just asked the landlord about cable modems and they said they were available. I figured with my cell phone I probably wouldn't need a telegraph line anyway.
You know you are obsessed with broadband when that is the first question you ask about a new place to live LOL.
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