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America Reviews:
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| satisfaction, perhaps. reliability...? Unless I had a MONSTROUS battery/generator setup, I would rather go with a POTS landline than Cable or FiOS for a landline phone...
Currently only have a cell, but if bad weather strikes, or whatever chaos, a landline is MUCH more reliable to have.
I guess that "satisfaction" on a survey is not factoring in emergency reliability.
If I end up getting landline service at some point, it'd probably be basic service, no long distance. At this point, LD should be nearly free on landlines.
As much as I do like Cox for internet speed, and the cable TV service in general, I am not at all interested in phone service through them, even if it is good quality, usually reliable, etc. Call it a "deeply held belief" but I would rather have a working phone in a pinch (span of DAYS without power, which happened here a year ago or so...) instead of being at the mercy of a little battery, a modem/gateway, and THEN a phone...
Cox has tried for years to sign me up with their phone service; spam mail, spam email, spam phone calls, reps that insist that I must get it, just about every commercial break with an ad for it... I just don't want it (unless it were completely free, indefinitely...  ).
Until I can be assured that Cable/FiOS phone service would work for a WEEK+ ...without electricity from the grid, I'm just not sold. My parents had no power for a week after a massive ice storm hit last year... The landline worked throughout the entire week, no problem... Can't be satisfied with something if it flat out isn't working
All my rambling aside, congrats to Cox for the wins  |
