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
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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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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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| If it were as easy and cheap as you claim they would be doing this. Contrary to popular opinion no one is sitting around a big conference table smoking fine cigars trying to figure out more ways to screw you.
There is a lot more to deploying DSL in the more rural areas than just buying a few line cards. |
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These same people usually do not have running water, natural gas, or cable tv. Just wondering. Are you a CenturyTel customer or are you just bitching for the sake of bitching? |
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BigVe
join:2005-07-15
Gulliver, MI | reply to inteller
Can agree to that as my bundled phone and 1.5 Dsl is almost $100/Mo. There is no competition around where i live so i have to pay for others where there is competition. |
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silly silly things to say We just live in rural areas and unfortunately competition does not exist? Hence a price you pay for seclusion. |
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Well put... |
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 djdanskaRudie32Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
kudos:4
·Time Warner Cable
·T-Mobile US
| reply to inteller
said by inteller: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. What's more fucked up is i have a good friend in Sweden, who has a 384/384 kbps line. He has access to speeds i could only dream of! But gets the slowest possible! I think i have him convinced to bump up the speeds to 1-2 meg for an extra 30 krona. LoL... Just bump it up to 24 meg down.. Your youtube videos will fly on it! I swear! hehehe
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