bassrun
join:2001-02-16
Bethesda, MD
|  reply to Anon
Re: Interesting theory: AT&T and Verizon?
After just one wonderful month of SDSL service from IBS Networks (I guess I'm a rare subscriber who doesn't have any major complaints about IBS), it looks like my future is 56K..... I'd previously tried to get DSL from Speakeasy and then from PhoenixDSL, before I found IBS/NorthPoint. Unfortunately, my options are pretty limited. At 16,600' from the CO, Covad can't hook me up, PhoenixDSL (r.i.p.) got bought out by MegaPath (no residential service), and Comcast doesn't have cable modem service in my area. So, despite my better judgement, despite their well-deserved reputation as "Hell Atlantic", and despite their direct responsibility for the demise of NorthPoint, I decided to check out Verizon.
Verizon's online pre-qual says that they don't yet have DSL service in my area, but they expect to have it WITHIN A MONTH. Could it be that they're about to take over NorthPoint's equipment from AT&T? Did Verizon pull out of the NorthPoint purchase because they'd arranged to get a much cheaper price for the same equipment in a post-bankruptcy breakup of NorthPoint? Is it just my paranoia, or is this more than coincidence?? Would an agreement of this sort be legal??
BTW, I'm a bit bothered that so much of this thread is so negative toward IBS Networks. It's not their fault that NorthPoint went belly-up, and if NorthPoint were still around, I'll bet we'd all be getting pretty good service.
--John |
