jester121
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Re: Won't be hard
said by hottboiinnc  :and with VZ areas still pay out the ass for DSL. Try ~$50 for basic in some areas of Ohio. VZ rapes their customers and makes the cities they service to find other service providers that are willing to service. Oh, companies like Hawaii Telecom and Fairpoint that flounder around and declare bankruptcy? 
If I had a choice between paying less to an incompetent company that can't manage their business or a bit more to a proven provider like Verizon, the choice is pretty clear -- at least to rational people who aren't jaded to hate any big company just because. |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by jester121 :Oh, companies like Hawaii Telecom and Fairpoint that flounder around and declare bankruptcy? . They went in to bankruptcy because they caved in to regulators and agreed on rates that couldn't earn a profit. Stupid move by them, but also on the regulators for forcing terms that guaranteed bankruptcy. |
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hottboiinnc
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hottboiinnc
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And I WOULD NOT do business with VZ. I'd pick Hawaii Telcom and Fairpoint over them.
By the way have you ever used Fairpoint services? Has anyone on here used Fairpoint besides the New England states that they picked up from VZ?
Well I can tell you that in Ohio the areas that have them, have NO problems at all. |
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jester121
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| said by hottboiinnc :Well I can tell you that in Ohio the areas that have them, have NO problems at all. Wonder why they even have a customer service phone number, since things run so smoothly?
Hyperbole much? |
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hottboiinnc
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| Gotta have it to order products and pay your bill if you want to do it on the phone.
But FairPoint doesn't have the issues there like everyone claims in the New England States. People knew from the get go there would be problems. The people that did not take the steps to be ready are stupid and deserve what they get. you can't tell me that none of them knew that they would end up getting a new email address and that there would be no downtime. Anyone that is dumb enough to believe that doesn't even deserve the right to have email to start off with, let alone use their ISP for email. |
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ashworth
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Pittsburgh, PA | reply to jester121
You hit it on the head, you get what you pay for. In Frontier's and Fairpoint's defense I thought they were providers that could handle the load. Frontier better have a big differentiation from the Fairpoint merger. |
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CaptainRR
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I have at&t here in Ohio with nothing better than dailup. My mother has Fairpoint DSL in Alburg, VT for the past 5 years and it has been excellent for her. I been up there few times visiting and I have clocked it and it gives her the tier speed she it paying for. |
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PDXPLT
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said by jester121 :If I had a choice between paying less to an incompetent company that can't manage their business or a bit more to a proven provider like Verizon, ... LOL, "proven provider"? Verizon doesn't provide anything that people want in a landline service in my area. All they provide is voice, which no one cares about since cellphones are better for that type of thing. What folks want is broadband, and Verizion here is the Great "Proven Unprovider". |
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| said by PDXPLT :said by jester121 :If I had a choice between paying less to an incompetent company that can't manage their business or a bit more to a proven provider like Verizon, ... LOL, "proven provider"? Verizon doesn't provide anything that people want in a landline service in my area. All they provide is voice, which no one cares about since cellphones are better for that type of thing. What folks want is broadband, and Verizon here is the Great "Proven Unprovider". Cellphones are neat, But not everyone can afford them and My income is limited and I live within My means, Which is better than living paycheck to paycheck and being heavily in debt. |
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jester121
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Yeah, it's a shame Verizon doesn't have a subsidiary that offers wireless service (voice AND data), and divisions that offer DSL, FIOS in some areas, etc.... Oh duh... that's right, they do!
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