RMKyote
join:2000-12-21
Beverly Hills, CA
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Re: Mobile Phones?
said by fiberguy  :Yes... Back in the times of the cellular boom, then US West put their money on DSL and HighSpeed internet as the next great savior. To this day, this is why Qwest's cellular service never amounted to much of anything. HOWEVER, US West was the leader in DSL where much of the nation had squat and to this day, in my opinion, has the best DSL in the country. Wrong. USWest had a very large Cellular presence. One of the better. I know I was part of the rollout. Of which at the time I had a Celluar1 car phone that all the Pres's from the divisions that were involved used play with all the time. I like to think it was my car phone that pushed them into the biz. I didn't mind, it got my bill paid for me every month. And then it became Airtouch, and is now Verizon in the Western 14 states that USWest had. It got dumped/split off when DSL was becoming fashionable and the USW/Qwest merger was in the offing and when Qwest saw DSL as more important with Anschutes promise as part of the merger he would link us with the big fibre line that runs through the Southern US using his right of way via the Railroads he owned making Qwest the new good guy all providing DSL company. The FCC bought that real big, they allowed the merger. Then about a month after the merger was complete, not even taking a breath, he dumped the Railroads and the right of way to run the Fibre. The FCC did nothing. I was with the cellular portion for over 15 years. Unfortunately, Verizon didn't keep up the pace. I got better calls in the California Desert than I did in Downtown Denver. When I left, I left an incredible plan and with no inception date, I could do as I pleased with plans and phones. But with no service, it really didn't matter. Their current product is treated like a redheaded stepchild.
DSL.
USWest was never a leader in DSL. "In the day", it was SprintION on USW/Qwest lines with 10MB SDSL (that's both ways) and 4 Digital Phone Lines for $150 a month with no problems what so ever the whole time. As mentioned here, Qwest likes to resell. When they get their price. That was until Qwest took over and made it hard for SprintION to do business and SprintION decided it would be cheaper to go out of business than to fight for their Law given right to access. And we the consumers lost big time there with the start of the demise of SDSL. But finally now Qwest is the best in the area, and I've had them all, and hopefully getting better as advertised.
BUT . . . what I want to know is what happened to SDSL and most of all my 10MBps speed. It looks like we got sold out for a cheaper on their end product, ADSL, with less than speed rich product. I saw a giant industry flop towards the late 90's and ADSL was the new norm with the inflated price and lower speeds. I only hope that these rumors of better service with new technology are true. Qwest is sending me a new modem to, hopefully, remedy problems that I am having, even though I am 3318 feet from the CO, and I am hoping that the new modem will have the newer technology that is being said that they are moving towards and will be able to jump on the newer services. We'll see. |
