SBC $19.95 DSL Deal > upgrade?

upgrade?

If you resigned a 1 year contract, you would probably be able to get the $19.99 price.
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It says new customer...I will have to call and see if we can get re-rated.
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reply to Bill
Shouda
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reply to china crisis

Don't cry, some day you might be able to get cable too.

reply to Bill

said by Bill:

said by Boricua65:

said by Bill:

If you resigned a 1 year contract, you would probably be able to get the $19.99 price.

It doesn't allow current customers to get this offer. This offer is for new customers.

Really? That sucks.

I figured they might be nice and let customers resign contracts to let them in on the deals Some companies do that.

Yea, I'm in the same position. Unfortunately, I don't have the option of cable due to the way my apartment complex is set up and SBC is totally unwilling to deal. With those assholes its take it or leave it, and when I move I'm DEFINATELY going to leave it. Screw DSL, its slower anyway.

reply to dadkins
I know I would be crying if I got cable. I would be paying nearly 2x as much for what I am currently getting from SBC if I jumped ship to Cox HSI in my neighborhood. And half the time, Cox cannot even keep business class lines running right. Whenever there is trouble with the ATM fiber that supplies my workplace with Internet (Provisioned by Cox, BTW - and we pay them many tens of thousands of $$$/month to have it) an SBC truck rolls up to check the lines, test the ends, etc. The cable HSI system out here runs back to SBC provided lines at the head end. So rather than dump $39.99/month (for three months introductory rate) + bare minimum TV @ $45/month on top of that or - $10 without TV service, Modem Rental (Another $10/month) or buying it ($150) only to have my 90-day introductory rate expire and then it jumps to $49.95/month + taxes... for *sometimes* functional 5mb/756k:

Cox HSI: $39.99 Introduction rate + buying a modem + ($150) Face it, renting it is just chump revenue for them - Unbundled TV + $10.00 means my First month will cost me $ 199.99. After three months, it spikes to a total of $59.99/month + tax. Where I live, that's a total of $65.53/month for unbundled Cox HSI. Oh, and they toss in a 40GB/month cap, free of charge. THey know that this is generous of them because they cannot keep clients hooked up to it long enough to HIT that cap.

My total DSL bill including bundled in "lifeline" telephone service, taxes, FSUF, etc. amounts to *gasp* $67.50/month on average for 6mb/608kb service. Ad nauseum too - it's a "grand fathered" plan, out of contract. Modem was free with the installation kit. Oh, and yeah, self-install also keeps initial install on the cheap. *Click* My DSL was on when my kit arrived, just had to plug it in, sign-in...done. My phone bill takes an instant $44.95/month jump for the Internet service added to it. It went down for the first time, HARD in over 3 years for only half a day because a router went dark on their side. I have seen businesses that rely on Cox HSI flounder for days, even a week at a time until they could even *see* a truck roll up for service. SBC's answered my calls, and rolled trucks in the past for me *the same day* I called, often with a fix for the problem in hand.

However, you will NOT hear of SBC techs scanning the neighborhood for "Illegal Wi-Fi" hooked up to their service and requesting to inspect homes/confiscate equipment. You will not see SBC techs going around and ripping all external wires off of the side of an apartment or house on an home that subscribes to their services on just the suspicion of "illegal activity in violation of their TOS". You will not see SBC capping or limiting your bandwidth. Ever. No caps, no glass ceilings, no restrictions outside of doing purposeful, detrimental harm to others' systems are they ever going to call into question your service. Oh, and it's up and running in time intervals marked in years - @ 100% utilization. I have yet to see any Cable customer that can truthfully claim that in my neighborhood. Hell, half of my friends/neighbors within reach are hopping off and on my Wi-Fi when Cox takes a walk. Oh, and since SBC has yet to show any vested interest in what the media corporations/associations, etc. are up to - not a single subpoena to my knowledge has been served effectively through SBC to a client. Meanwhile, Cox has tried to sue a friend of mine over a legitimate product *demo* that was downloaded through their HSI connection. Cable's loosing big time when they attack their own clientele, IMO.

SBC for me baby...it's not cheaper, it's about the same speed for Cox's offering in super-splurge-o-matic deluxe offerings, pings are ultra low - coast to coast in mid 40's every time since I switched to SBC's 6/600 plan - it's just been better in every way.(And they let me run my radio network that runs through Internet - Cox wanted to sell me a $300/month business plan that STILL had caps if "You were going to be utilizing your unlimited, 24-7-always on Internet...all the time.." I could tell that sales rep did not have enough sugar in his Crack Krispies that morning. Makes Cox look downright....pitiful.

Get stuck on cable - and cry me a river. But like you yourself said earlier...shop the market if you have a choice and pick what works for you. Well, Cable certainly doesn't work for me, in my given area. Ciao, baby!
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reply to Mega DETH
I had just called and was told I will be contacted within in a few days about being re-rated from $26.95 to $19.99, as well as be informed whether they can push through the Pro package at $29.99. The CS guy I talked to said he thinks I'll be re-rated to $19.99, but I'll count my chickens when they hatch.

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Caps
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Connection
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Sh*tty
Television

reply to Blackened

said by Blackened:

I had just called and was told I will be contacted within in a few days about being re-rated from $26.95 to $19.99, as well as be informed whether they can push through the Pro package at $29.99. The CS guy I talked to said he thinks I'll be re-rated to $19.99, but I'll count my chickens when they hatch.