CylonRed
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Bloom County
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Re: FIOS ? Who can get that ?
Even if it was available to me I don;t know I would want to get possibly caught up in the Verizon billing hell they seem to be having with FIOS. Thank god we have not had issues with our cell bill but I would not consider it till I thought they had it straightened out... I don't do TWC and it would take a gun to my head and my children threatened with their life before I would go back to them in ANY capacity.
But then I would also NOT get the tripe play - last thing I want is all services running thru one connection so that if it goes out so do ALL of the services.
Of course I an in Ohio and AT&T land so I have no worried about FIOS ever getting here....  |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
Sweden
 ·Verizon FIOS
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| said by CylonRed  :Even if it was available to me I don;t know I would want to get possibly caught up in the Verizon billing hell they seem to be having with FIOS. Thank god we have not had issues with our cell bill but I would not consider it till I thought they had it straightened out... I don't do TWC and it would take a gun to my head and my children threatened with their life before I would go back to them in ANY capacity. But then I would also NOT get the tripe play - last thing I want is all services running thru one connection so that if it goes out so do ALL of the services. Of course I an in Ohio and AT&T land so I have no worried about FIOS ever getting here.... Well #1, I have had a complete nightmare experience with Cablevision, so I'd never go back to them... Making the move to Verizon was as smooth as butter. Everything worked out perfectly... Including the install, service quality and free LCD HDTV I got.
I really don't see the big deal with having three services over one line... The only "vital" utilities are gas, electric, water and phone service.. I don't see how it would not having 1 out of 3 would be any better than having none of them... Usually they fix the problems pretty quick also, and fiber optics eliminated many of the signal problems. The only way you can really lose service now is if the ONT fails, there is windstorm or something happens in the CO.
-Tzale
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CylonRed
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Bloom County
| Or the line gets cut and now you are out phone along with everything else and with 2 young kids - ain't going to do it. Phone lines have not gone dead in years upon years with POTs - even with hours long power failures. Not going to let an internet outage of any kind affect my dialing 911 from a regular phone where the chance of 911 not working is incredibly small in my area. |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
Sweden
·Verizon FIOS
·Optimum Online
| said by CylonRed :Or the line gets cut and now you are out phone along with everything else and with 2 young kids - ain't going to do it. Phone lines have not gone dead in years upon years with POTs - even with hours long power failures. Not going to let an internet outage of any kind affect my dialing 911 from a regular phone where the chance of 911 not working is incredibly small in my area. Phones have never gone dead here either.. I don't think you really understand how FIOS works though... It isn't a VOIP phone service like you get from the cable company... It is basically regular phone service + cable tv + internet over fiber... You can still purchase VOIP over FIOS, but that is a totally different service as it rides over the internet... Your internet service can go down and FIOS phone might not go down. There is also a battery backup on the phone which is supposed to last for 8 hours of talk time, which isn't bad at all.
-Tzale
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Neoconservatives (G.W.B) are not real conservatives. A conservative believes in defending the Constitution. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - RON PAUL 2008 »www.usconstitution.net/const.html
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CylonRed
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Bloom County | It still does not matter being in AT&T land - if I was in Verizon maybe but I am not. And you are probably right - I am thinking more of VIOP than FIOS... |
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