skj
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Atlanta, GA
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Re: Embarq offering naked DSL as a retention offer
This has not been confirmed, but here is what I have been told are the prices for Embarq Naked DSL:
768 K
$29.95
1.5 M
$34.95
3.0 M
$44.95
5.0 M
$54.95
10.0 M
$64.95
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
 ·Embarq
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| that's a royal steal...erm, deal!
Basically the price you pay for the 10 meg package is $54.95 if you have the $30 phone package....or $64.95 for if you have a package less than $30.....
So realistically,there's no extra price tacked on; it's like paying the full price, but without the additional charges of a phone line.
if this turns out to be true, man oh man; this will be an awesome deal! |
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Vectordirect
join:2003-02-09
Rhome, TX
| My wife and I signed up for this today. We called and told them that we were considering switching to a WISP since the cost was less and we didn't need a phone line. The retention rep offered us the 5.0 plan alone for 54.95 a month with no voice. We took it and it should be effective before Monday. |
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by Vectordirect  :My wife and I signed up for this today. We called and told them that we were considering switching to a WISP since the cost was less and we didn't need a phone line. The retention rep offered us the 5.0 plan alone for 54.95 a month with no voice. We took it and it should be effective before Monday. wow; that's great. If this pattern keeps up, Embarq will have a very nice naked DSL deal going on; many of the other telco's charge you a bit to have naked DSL; it doesn't look like Embarq will be charging you anything extra.
I'll be looking forward to this once 10/1 rolls around. |
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orph4824
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join:2001-04-26
Greeneville, TN | reply to skj
I called in as espaeth suggest and sure enough my dialtone should become a flatline as of Friday, awesome deal! |
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Fox McCloud
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join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by orph4824 :I called in as espaeth suggest and sure enough my dialtone should become a flatline as of Friday, awesome deal! what, exactly did you say? Did you threaten or just ask for it? |
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orph4824
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join:2001-04-26
Greeneville, TN | Told them I was dropping service for a better deal from Comcast and that I never used the POTS anyhow(that being the truth). |
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by orph4824 :Told them I was dropping service for a better deal from Comcast and that I never used the POTS anyhow(that being the truth). ahhh....I'll probably have to try for an alternative approach (I won't like)...
My approach would probably be this, "Well, I'm thinking a bout signing up, but I just don't know; EVDO is a little cheaper, and I don't have a need for a phone-line....is there anything I could do to not get a phoneline?"
All would be 100% true (EVDO is $50.90 for me after taxes) and I'd probably go for, at the least 5 meg...so.... |
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Dezbend
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join:2001-04-20
| Sales reps do not have this offer. Negotiating at the point of sale will do nothing for you 
I asked my friend about this and it appears that this offer is available in all areas with the pricing seen above.
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by Dezbend :Sales reps do not have this offer. Negotiating at the point of sale will do nothing for you I asked my friend about this and it appears that this offer is available in all areas with the pricing seen above. that sucks about signing up.
Ahh well, this just came out...hopefully by the time DSL is available here (I'm going to guess the soonest will be March of 2008....thought June-July seems more likely) things will have changed a bit. If they see naked DSL as something people like...well, you never know. |
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netposer
join:2003-02-06
Nashville, NC | reply to skj
What's the upstream speeds on each of those download speeds? |
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Vectordirect
join:2003-02-09
Rhome, TX | My 5.0 download is supposed to come with 768 upload.All the speedtests I do indicate that 640 or so is what I have. |
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orph4824
I Ate What??
join:2001-04-26
Greeneville, TN
| *sings... "The Day the Dialtone Died"
No more POTS telephone, seems they killed it a day ahead of what I was told..Only thing now is since my DSL is naked... does it need a jacket??? 
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by orph4824 :*sings... "The Day the Dialtone Died" No more POTS telephone, seems they killed it a day ahead of what I was told..Only thing now is since my DSL is naked... does it need a jacket??? nah; let it be "free to be" :-P
anyway, Embarq said they won't be offering this up front...but if enough people find out about this, and start spreading the word...perhaps they'll change their mind. (one thing they could do that would be smart is offer cheap VoIP service in addition/instead of POTS). |
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espaeth
Digital Plumber
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join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
 ·voip.ms
·Vitelity VOIP
·Callcentric
·VoiceStick
·ViaTalk
 ·Comcast
·Embarq
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said by orph4824 :No more POTS telephone, seems they killed it a day ahead of what I was told.. I wasn't so lucky. My line was supposed to go dead on Wednesday, but after things were still live today I called Embarq support. Seems my order to cancel was withdrawn in the system, so the CSR I spoke with today put my request through again. *fingers crossed*
-Eric |
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orph4824
I Ate What??
join:2001-04-26
Greeneville, TN
| reply to Fox McCloud
I'd rather choose another provider for VoIP... I've looked at 3, vonage, viatalk, packet8.
Both vonage and viatalk don't have any local access numbers and just found out about packet8 today from a friend they do have local numbers still researching. Back last year skype offers an unlimited outbound calling 12mos for $15 this year it goes to $30 still worth it and may renew that come January. Skype has a inbound account but like vonage and viatalk no local numbers and I'd like the service to computer independant to where I could hook up POTS devices like a fax machine etc, I've even given thought about an asterisk server, it's a voip server based on linux.
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dav0r
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Premium
join:2003-06-15
Albertville, MN
·Charter Pipeline
·Embarq
3 edits | reply to Vectordirect
said by Vectordirect :My 5.0 download is supposed to come with 768 upload.All the speedtests I do indicate that 640 or so is what I have. They're running g_dmt mutli-mode. If you're using a 660 they changed my ADSL standard to get me up to 864 but it was a royal pain... took two hours and 3 people total time to get it changed/back up. Techs kept syncing at 896 and I was stuck at 768 but had previously gotten 864 (we're talking sync here not actual throughput, you lose about %15 of your throughput based on your sync).
So you're syncing at 5888/768 (896 would be your full '768' rate upload after loss/overhead) which turns into just over 5000 and 655'ish. Do us all a favor and complain about it like I did. I don't care what DSL standard they put me on and I don't care if I have to buy a dang modem to support the full rate but don't tell me 768 then knock me down 100kbps without saying anything. It's over now but I was ticked at the time.
With 5888/864 (I can't get that extra 32 for some reason but the test sets can that testers had here... I think the 660 sucks, personally) I get 5050/740 consistently on actual throughput testing. |
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skj
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Atlanta, GA |  (topic move) Embarq offering naked DSL as a retention offer
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The post that was here (and all 1 followups to it), has been moved to a new topic .. »10mb availability |
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StillLearn
Premium
join:2002-03-21
Streamwood, IL
·AT&T Midwest
| reply to espaeth
Re: Embarq offering naked DSL as a retention offer
said by espaeth :EMBARQ high-speed Internet $34.95 EMBARQ Internet Access $10.00 HSI Total: $44.95 What is that charge for "Internet Access"? |
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Vectordirect
join:2003-02-09
Rhome, TX
| The 10 dollar charge is for not having a qualified telephone bundle. My 5.0 service is regularly priced 54.95 and i get a 10 dollar credit for the bundled telephone service. With the naked DSL, I will be paying 10 dollars more,but losing the phone service for a net loss of about 40 dollars a month (long distance too). |
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