| Again? It wasn't that long ago that Embarq popped up..and now they're going to be changing the name again. Cue round 3 of "Your ISP has changed names!" |
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 rcdaileyDragoonflyPremium
join:2005-03-29
Rialto, CA | I have a friend who is an Embarq customer. He had dialup for a long time before he got DSL from them. I hope this doesn't mess up his service. He has no other choice where he is located. |
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Reviews:
 ·DSL EXTREME
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All the more reason to not use your isp's email domain if you can avoid it. I remember when Comcast too over AT&T Broadband and all my neighbors were complaining about changing their email from @attbi to comcast.net. As long as I have my own domain I don't really care what they call themselves as long as the service works and they don't prevent me from hosting things like my email somewhere else. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to Gandalf4503
Waitaminute, isn't CenturyTel the company that still has 1.5 Mbps service in most areas for a lousy price? Or is their 36/8/10 Mbps service rolling out to other places now?
This just comes as a shocker. Wonder what Windstream is gonna do now. |
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plat2on1
join:2002-08-21
Hopewell Junction, NY | hopefully windstream acquires frontier to free me from this hell  |
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Reviews:
 ·Cox HSI
 ·Cox VOIP
2 edits | reply to iansltx
here you go right off there websight! Up to 50 times faster than Dial-up
* Unlimited access
* Private, secure, always connected
* 4 email addresses
* Free spam filter
$41.20 per month
website »www.centurytel.com/Pages/Persona···lans.jsp
I don't wish these bastards on any one. |
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 tstolzePremium
join:2003-08-08
O Fallon, MO
kudos:1
·CenturyLink
·Charter
| In my area Centurytel offers phone, unlimited local and long distance, along with 10/768 internet for 79.99 + taxes. For the first 12 months I received a $10 discount off that price for a 12 month commitment.
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Ofallon, Mo Weather |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to plat2on1
Re: Again? Ah that's right. WS will buy Frontier, creating a bigger Windstream. CenturyTel will acquire Embarq, leaving us with ???
n the end, three baby bells, two rural ILECs and a partridge in a pear tree. |
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Re: here you go right off there websight! Why because they don't give it away? CenturyTel customers are in some very rural areas where the per customer prices are much more expensive than in urban areas. |
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| Windstream serves similarly out-in-the-boonies areas, and they have 12 Mbps service at rates competitive with cable, across most of their footprint.
Also, interesting to know, about the FTTH deal. Guess it's similar with all these rural ILECs: fiber in new developments, copper in old. |
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bobvickPremium
join:2008-04-01
Brilliant, AL | reply to jchambers28
If you think that CenturyTel is bad, and that $40 (where I live it is $35) a month for 1.5 is bad, you should have lived WAAAY out in the sticks and paid HughesNet $70 per month for 1.0 (which was more like 500). CenturyTel is an angel compaired to Hughes. |
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 intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
 ·Cingular Wireless
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said by battleop:Why because they don't give it away? CenturyTel customers are in some very rural areas where the per customer prices are much more expensive than in urban areas. bullshit bullshit bullshit....the copper has been in the ground for ages and has paid for itself many times over. it doesn't cost any more to install a DSLAM in the CO that it does in any other more urban market. Save me that Centurytel propaganda bullshit. We are not talking about huge sub divisions being built in the middle of no where. Stop trying to justify their ridiculous pricing. They charge what they charge because they can get away with it. |
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intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | reply to tstolze
you are the exception and not the norm. They rip off their non competitive areas to subsidize the areas they have to compete. |
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intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
·Cingular Wireless
3 edits | reply to jchambers28
Up to 9 times faster than Dial-up
Unlimited access
Private, secure, always connected
4 email addresses
Free spam filter
$31.20 per month
^that kind of shit should be illegal. In some parts of the world they call that highway robbery. The OP said it best, I don't wish them on anyone. Sadly for a lot of folks they are they only (shitty) choice and CT knows it. |
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 Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
kudos:2
·RoadRunner Cable
·Comcast
·Time Warner VOIP
1 edit | reply to tstolze
said by tstolze:In my area Centurytel offers phone, unlimited local and long distance, along with 10/768 internet for 79.99 + taxes. For the first 12 months I received a $10 discount off that price for a 12 month commitment. for that amout i can get unlimited local and long distance (digital phone from cable co)& 15/2 cable HSI |
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 kontosxyzzy
join:2001-10-04
West Henrietta, NY | reply to inteller
said by inteller:said by battleop:Why because they don't give it away? CenturyTel customers are in some very rural areas where the per customer prices are much more expensive than in urban areas. bullshit bullshit bullshit....the copper has been in the ground for ages and has paid for itself many times over. it doesn't cost any more to install a DSLAM in the CO that it does in any other more urban market. Ummm. That's the point of the GP's post. The rural provider has to pay the same amount of money for a DSLAM that serves up to 81 households as an urban provider pays for one that serves thousands. I know that a smaller chassis and fewer line cards will be somewhat cheaper for CenTel, but the Per Subscriber cost will still be higher |
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intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
·Cingular Wireless
| said by kontos: I know that a smaller chassis and fewer line cards will be somewhat cheaper for CenTel, but the Per Subscriber cost will still be higher and that's my point. They aren't going to scale out a deployment to equal thousands in a CO that serves only a few. that way per subscriber costs will be the same. So they have a chassis that has 3 cards as opposed to 30, big deal it isn't breaking their bank. worst case scenario is they are filling up a chassis and bend over a few customers to pay for it. |
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 dsldude08Premium,VIP
join:2008-01-03
La Crosse, WI
kudos:2 | You unfortunately have a distorted view of how businesses run. Why would they scale out 30 cards to only 3 subscribers? A bit of overload wouldn't you say? |
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kontosxyzzy
join:2001-10-04
West Henrietta, NY | said by dsldude08:You unfortunately have a distorted view of how businesses run. Why would they scale out 30 cards to only 3 subscribers? A bit of overload wouldn't you say? No inteller  's distorted view is that he thinks you can get 3 cards for 10% of the price of 30. That's not how it works. |
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intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
·Cingular Wireless
| well actually yes that is how it works, you buy the chassis and then you buy the cars per. If you think that is wrong then obviously you don't need to be buying the equipment for your company. to do it any other way would break the whole cost benefit of chassis backplane systems. |
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