dew456
join:2003-08-13
Dallas, TX
|  Advantex Communications sold
It was announced Friday that Advantex Communications was sold to Grande Communications, which I believe is out of Austin. I'm live in Little Elm and currently use Advantex dsl/phone service and I'm hoping this sale is a good thing. Grande has some good phone packages and according to their website they will start offering new/upgraded services early next year. I sure hope they revamp the dsl packages, I'm tired of paying $40/month for 768/128 when SBC has 1500/128 for $26.99/month. I saw somewhere that they have a phone package deal for I think $50/month that includes all the stuff like caller id plus unlimited local and long distance.
They are also a cable provider and they did mention upgrading the cable to digital.
Hoping for the best here, I'll give them a couple of months and if there are no changes I will be checking to see if SBC has dsl in my neighborhood yet. I've heard it would be turned on in the next month.
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rdgintex
join:2003-09-12
Little Elm, TX
| Forget the $50 Phone package and get a Vonage digital phone line. I pay less than $37 a month for my entire package taxes and all. That’s a greatly expanded local calling area and unlimited long distance. International calls are cheep too; most around 8 cents a minute. If you have Advantex DSL in Little Elm then you don't have to maintain your phone line to keep your broadband. I don't! Work out the kinks with port forwarding and sending the correct commands to the ATA switch when you need to send faxes and you’ll forget about traditional phone service.
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MLOK5
My Reality Check Bounced
Premium,MVM
join:2000-08-17
Plano, TX
| reply to dew456
How did I miss this thread?? YEEEHAWW! I'm so glad! They have an "agreement" with my complex for phone, cable, and DSL. Phone is no big deal, their cable sucks so I have Dish Network instead. Their DSL leaves a lot to be desired -- esp. after having AT&T Broadband for 2 years before this. I'm going to have to do some more research on this. Thanks for the post!!! 
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