 kg4mucGettin It Done A Little At A Time
join:2003-02-17
Marion, VA
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Re: Embarq broadband prices may be going up. said by dsldude08:It really depends on how the advertise rates are set. Our rates on the website are without any promotions and full price. But, they go as follows: 256k 31.20/mo 1.5Mb 41.20/mo 3Mb-15Mb 51.20/mo Are those full prices or promotional prices Embarq is advertising? Because we used to advertise promotional prices over the full price on our website, but not anymore. In fact, I checked their website, that is the BUNDLE price. Relax. » www.embarq.com/Residential/Inter···Internet Ok,
With that being said what I have been questioning is this:
As a evidently soon to be former Embarq customer in the new company's service area will I get to retain what I have without being forced to down grade to something 5 times slower because of the new companie's current tier structure?
Currently I am at 3 meg and we do have landline with some bundled features I know for a fact my 13-14k feet from the remote is going to prevent me from obtaining any thing faster that I have now without a lot of work which I seriously doubt they will do right off the bat.
If I could sync at 10 meg and it the useable I wouldn't care paying for it but since I know thats probably never going to happen it just don't seem like a good idea to pay more and receive less! Eventhough it is currently the american way 
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 dsldude08Premium,VIP
join:2008-01-03
La Crosse, WI
kudos:2 | Well, to give you a simple and straight forward answer, to the best of my ability I will say the following: The last company we acquired was Madison River Communications, all of their pricing structures were grandfathered. So, I would imagine the same process would be used. We do the same for our current pricing structure, if you have a rate for DSL that you've had for two years, and then we increase it, well, generally your rate doesn't change until you make a change to your account requesting such. So, as of right now, I wouldn't be too worried about your current pricing being changed.
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kg4mucGettin It Done A Little At A Time
join:2003-02-17
Marion, VA | Thanks!!
That was what I needed to know! and was actually what I needed to hear!
appreciate the reply!
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I currently have Dry-Loop DSL with Embarq with 5Meg/768K service and Static IP for $55/month.
Service has been very reliable, probably rating with 99.9% uptime and rarely any thruput issues. Speedtests usually run at 4.5M/650K, so not quite up to the rated speed but close.
One thing I like about Embarq's tiers compared to CenturyTel is more tiers and higher upload speeds. Embarq's 10M service has a 896K upstream but Ctel's max is 768K.
Will our upstream speed change under CenturyTel? Will our tiers be grandfathered under CenturyTel?
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dsldude08Premium,VIP
join:2008-01-03
La Crosse, WI
kudos:2 | We do offer static IP's, and it is likely your prices/speeds/etc will be grandfathered. But I cannot give any definitive answer to it since it is really not up to myself, just going by the history we have here.
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