prestonlewis
Premium,MVM
join:2003-04-13
Sacramento, CA
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As a consumer in Northern California, I was pleased with the progress PacBell was making in expanding DSL services. When SBC bought Pacific Telesys (Nevada Bell & Pacific Bell), everything ground to a halt. No more RTs, COs in my neck of the woods (Sacramento) which is woefully underserved. A whole metro county served by a handful, yes handful of COs? When Userve or whatever they call their TV was rolled out in Sacramento, I wondered just how many dozens of people would qualify for the service. Under the AT&T banner, SBC still isn't doing anything much. Perhaps somewhere in California/Nevada AT&T/SBC is doing something nice but I don't hear about it.
I barely use AT&T these days. Comcast for cable internet with Clearwire beginning WISP service sometime soon. DSLExtreme for backup DSL (great company). We do have an AT&T phone line for faxing/DSL but it is barely used.
It is hard to see a venerable, predictable, performing company like PacBell be taken over by old Ed's company which laments competition, wants web page providers to pay him for the privilege of serving his pitiable small DSL footprint, etc. |
