| Just One Email When I got the email notifying me I had exceeded my "Data Plan" for the month I immediately began a search for an alternative internet provider and within a couple of days signed up with DSLExtreme.
I wish I could also drop the landline just in spite. |
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 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | said by steelyken:I wish I could also drop the landline just in spite.
Why can't you? |
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| Can't drop the POTS line and use a 3rd party ISP with AT&T.
They are still getting my money indirectly thru DSLExtreme but there are no caps...for now. |
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Rekrul
join:2007-04-21
Milford, CT Reviews:
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said by morbo:said by steelyken:I wish I could also drop the landline just in spite.
Why can't you? Because DSL requires a landline and in most areas in the US, AT&T is the only landline phone service available. |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 | reply to steelyken
said by steelyken:When I got the email notifying me I had exceeded my "Data Plan" for the month I immediately began a search for an alternative internet provider and within a couple of days signed up with DSLExtreme.
I wish I could also drop the landline just in spite.
I didn't wait for the "letter". As soon as my meter was active I dumped AT&T for Sonic.net "Fusion". I got twice the download for half the price, and "Fusion" includes POTS. Ported the number over. I am somewhat miffed at a minor change with Sonic.net, in that I will be leaving the old account with the homeowner, so my status will be, "new customer", and I will be stuck with a modem rental fee. But I hear that AT&T IPDSLAM service is the same way.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 | reply to steelyken
said by steelyken:Can't drop the POTS line and use a 3rd party ISP with AT&T.
Actually, I did just that. Requires a CLEC with their own POTS gear in the CO. I don't believe DSLExtreme does that in any state that they serve, but a small, Northern California company (Sonic.net, LLC) does; mostly in the S.F. Bay Area.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 | reply to Rekrul
said by Rekrul:said by morbo:said by steelyken:I wish I could also drop the landline just in spite.
Why can't you? Because DSL requires a landline and in most areas in the US, AT&T is the only landline phone service available. For some values of, "most", maybe. But AT&T only covers 22 states; and not all in most of them.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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