 
S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
 ·Comcast
| wow Didn't know centurytel had that kind of money....seems to me if they waited a little longer, like after XOHM fails, they'd get it cheaper.
--
"For duty and humanity!"
- Moe Larry and Curly (MEN IN BLACK, 1934)...These are the guys we have in Congress | |
|
 | 
dcurrey
Premium
join:2004-06-29
1 edit | Re: wow Embarq doesn't have anything to do with XOHM. Sprint is the one with XOHM. They are separate companies. | |
|
| 
inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
| said by S_engineer  :Didn't know centurytel had that kind of money....seems to me if they waited a little longer, like after XOHM fails, they'd get it cheaper. hey, when you charge people $30-40 for 1.5mbps DSL YOU TOO can hoarde back a lot of money to go buy failed companies.
This merger won't happen. Once the dems take office FCC is going to get shitty. The corporate ecosystem has been perverted far too long by letting these mergers happen while the debt is just shifted around. Let that turd Embarq go under and let other companies buy up the pieces they want. That is how real competition happens. | |
|
| | 
GeekJedi
RF is Good For You
Premium
join:2001-06-21
Mukwonago, WI
clubs: | Re: wow Hmmm, I pay $40 for 10mbps from CTL. | |
|
| | | jezme
join:2008-06-02
Wright City, MO
| Re: wow then you must be in an area where they have competition. we pay $35/month for 1.5/256 in places where they can get away with it because they are the only phone co and the only ISP then that can offer DSL...... they have no competition and they know it. I have friends getting 10mb service for what I pay for 1.5, but they live where there are competitors. | |
|
| | | | 
NickD
Premium
join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ
clubs: | Re: wow So will people's high speed internet still cost $24.95 up to the year 2525, like their commercial said. | |
|
| | | 
AlexNYC
join:2001-06-02
Edwards, CO
| Hummm ...  In my area CenturyHell offers an oversubscribed 1.5 Mbps DSL for $41.20 a month. It's like a time machine that takes you 15 years back with pocket loss and crappy customer service. | |
|
| | |
| | | |
| | Eek2121
Lovin Verizon FIOS
join:2002-10-12
Flanders, NJ | Re: wow Umm? Turd? Embarq? You are using AT&T wireless and you call embarq a turd? Hate to break it to ya buddy, 10mbit internet here + satellite + long distance, $99/mo. Sounds pretty damn competitive to me? | |
|
| | | 
Smile__
Premium
join:2008-10-10
Baltimore, MD | Re: wow Yeah! The slowest of 3G Aircards on the market.. Oh wait forgot Tmo... | |
|
| 
TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| said by S_engineer :Didn't know centurytel had that kind of money....seems to me if they waited a little longer, like after XOHM fails, they'd get it cheaper. It looks like Centurytel is buying Embarq, but when you look at who will own the combined company, it is really Embarq taking over CenturyTel.
after closing Embarq shareholders are expected to own about 66 percent of the combined company.
--
My BLOG .. .. Internet News .. .. My Web Page
Ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? | |
|
| | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Re: wow Upon relfection, Embarq owning the majority of the company is a good thing. Their speeds are at least decent across the footprint, and the company won't be fiber-phobic. | |
|
| | | 
tstolze
Premium
join:2003-08-08
O Fallon, MO
 ·CenturyLink
| Re: wow said by iansltx :Upon relfection, Embarq owning the majority of the company is a good thing. Their speeds are at least decent across the footprint, and the company won't be fiber-phobic. Centurytel is running FTTH in new developments, along with rumor of some testing of FTTH in older service areas
--
Ofallon, Mo Weather | |
|
| | EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | While Embarq shareholders will own a majority the entity, it looks like at least most of the CenturyTel board of directors will keep their jobs and will run the merged company, not Embarq's. One wonders how the merged entity will be branded. | |
|
| | | |
| | | 
Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs: | CentBarq | |
|
| | | |
| | | | EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| Re: wow Does it really matter? If CenturyTel does keep the CenturyTel name, they'll surely have to launch a public image campaign. (Even if they keep the Embarq name I wouldn't be surprised if they introduced a new logo to go with it) When Verizon introduced their new name out of nowhere without any history they wiped out two semi well-known names (Bell Atlantic and GTE), but today everyone knows who they are. Would it have made more sense to keep Bell Atlantic or GTE as the name? | |
|
| | ArkiMage
join:2001-06-30
Kingsport, TN
| Yeah, was surprised to see Centurytel "buying" Embarq but Embarq ending up owning >50% of the combined company. Sure seems the other way around.
But then there is a history of this sort of thing with them. In the early 90's United Telephone bought Sprint and decided to keep the Sprint name afterwards because it had more brand recognition. Embarq was later spun off from that.
»query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h···66958260 | |
|
|
Smile__
Premium
join:2008-10-10
Baltimore, MD | XOHM willnt fail.. Besides there is a merger in the making with Clearwire... Remember? Should be done by year end..  | |
|
Gandalf4503
join:2002-06-27
Las Vegas, NV | Again? It wasn't that long ago that Embarq popped up..and now they're going to be changing the name again. Cue round 3 of "Your ISP has changed names!" | |
|
| 
rcdailey
Dragoonfly
Premium
join:2005-03-29
Rialto, CA | Re: Again? I have a friend who is an Embarq customer. He had dialup for a long time before he got DSL from them. I hope this doesn't mess up his service. He has no other choice where he is located. | |
|
| unoriginal
join:2000-07-12
San Diego, CA
| All the more reason to not use your isp's email domain if you can avoid it. I remember when Comcast too over AT&T Broadband and all my neighbors were complaining about changing their email from @attbi to comcast.net. As long as I have my own domain I don't really care what they call themselves as long as the service works and they don't prevent me from hosting things like my email somewhere else. | |
|
| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Waitaminute, isn't CenturyTel the company that still has 1.5 Mbps service in most areas for a lousy price? Or is their 36/8/10 Mbps service rolling out to other places now?
This just comes as a shocker. Wonder what Windstream is gonna do now. | |
|
| | plat2on1
join:2002-08-21
Hopewell Junction, NY
clubs: | Re: Again? hopefully windstream acquires frontier to free me from this hell  | |
|
| | | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Re: Again? Ah that's right. WS will buy Frontier, creating a bigger Windstream. CenturyTel will acquire Embarq, leaving us with ???
n the end, three baby bells, two rural ILECs and a partridge in a pear tree. | |
|
| | |
| | |
tstolze
Premium
join:2003-08-08
O Fallon, MO
·CenturyLink
| Re: here you go right off there websight! said by jchambers28 :Up to 50 times faster than Dial-up * Unlimited access * Private, secure, always connected * 4 email addresses * Free spam filter $41.20 per month website » www.centurytel.com/Pages/Persona···lans.jspI don't wish these bastards on any one. In my area Centurytel offers phone, unlimited local and long distance, along with 10/768 internet for 79.99 + taxes. For the first 12 months I received a $10 discount off that price for a 12 month commitment.
--
Ofallon, Mo Weather | |
|
| | | |
inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | Re: here you go right off there websight! you are the exception and not the norm. They rip off their non competitive areas to subsidize the areas they have to compete. | |
|
| | | | | BigVe
join:2005-07-15
Gulliver, MI | Re: here you go right off there websight! Can agree to that as my bundled phone and 1.5 Dsl is almost $100/Mo. There is no competition around where i live so i have to pay for others where there is competition. | |
|
| | | | 
Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
·Time Warner Cable
 ·Time Warner VOIP
1 edit | said by tstolze :said by jchambers28 :Up to 50 times faster than Dial-up * Unlimited access * Private, secure, always connected * 4 email addresses * Free spam filter $41.20 per month website » www.centurytel.com/Pages/Persona···lans.jspI don't wish these bastards on any one. In my area Centurytel offers phone, unlimited local and long distance, along with 10/768 internet for 79.99 + taxes. For the first 12 months I received a $10 discount off that price for a 12 month commitment. for that amout i can get unlimited local and long distance (digital phone from cable co)& 15/2 cable HSI | |
|
| | | | jezme
join:2008-06-02
Wright City, MO
| you also live in an are where they have competition. we pay $85/month total for 1.5/256 and the unlimited package you refer to. They are the only phone co here, and therefore the only ISP that offers DSL, so they have no competition and they know it, and they put it to their customers. SO, long story short, they screw people that dont have a choice, and give people with a choice a decent rate, only because they have to. | |
|
| | | 
battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Why because they don't give it away? CenturyTel customers are in some very rural areas where the per customer prices are much more expensive than in urban areas. | |
|
| | | |
See 14 replies to this post |
|
| | | bobvick
Premium
join:2008-04-01
Brilliant, AL
·CenturyLink
| If you think that CenturyTel is bad, and that $40 (where I live it is $35) a month for 1.5 is bad, you should have lived WAAAY out in the sticks and paid HughesNet $70 per month for 1.0 (which was more like 500). CenturyTel is an angel compaired to Hughes. | |
|
| | |
inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
3 edits | Up to 9 times faster than Dial-up
Unlimited access
Private, secure, always connected
4 email addresses
Free spam filter
$31.20 per month
^that kind of shit should be illegal. In some parts of the world they call that highway robbery. The OP said it best, I don't wish them on anyone. Sadly for a lot of folks they are they only (shitty) choice and CT knows it. | |
|
| | | |
battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Re: here you go right off there websight! These same people usually do not have running water, natural gas, or cable tv. Just wondering. Are you a CenturyTel customer or are you just bitching for the sake of bitching? | |
|
| | | | | 
Sheridan
join:2008-10-26
Sheridan, MI | Re: here you go right off there websight! silly silly things to say We just live in rural areas and unfortunately competition does not exist? Hence a price you pay for seclusion. | |
|
| | | | 
djdanska
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Glen Ellyn, IL
clubs:
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·T-Mobile US
·A + Net
·Mediacom
·RCN CABLE
| said by inteller :Up to 9 times faster than Dial-up Unlimited access Private, secure, always connected 4 email addresses Free spam filter $31.20 per month^that kind of shit should be illegal. In some parts of the world they call that highway robbery. The OP said it best, I don't wish them on anyone. Sadly for a lot of folks they are they only (shitty) choice and CT knows it. What's more fucked up is i have a good friend in Sweden, who has a 384/384 kbps line. He has access to speeds i could only dream of! But gets the slowest possible! I think i have him convinced to bump up the speeds to 1-2 meg for an extra 30 krona. LoL... Just bump it up to 24 meg down.. Your youtube videos will fly on it! I swear! hehehe
--
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. | |
|
|
|
See 22 replies to this post |
|
Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs: | Maybe... The service will be better here once they fully take over!  | |
|
| 
idontthinkso
| Re: Maybe... said by Cheese :The service will be better here once they fully take over! yeah, and maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt. | |
|
| |
Cheese
Premium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs:
| Re: Maybe... said by idontthinkso :said by Cheese :The service will be better here once they fully take over! yeah, and maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt. First off, I meant Embarq, and second, maybe monkeys will fly out of your butt! | |
|
|
|
See 9 replies to this post |
|
waffleburger
join:2008-08-22
Blairstown, NJ | good maybe centurbarq will deploy some god-damn fiber in my town.. | |
|
| iowaboy
Premium
join:2004-02-28
Kalona, IA
| Re: good That is cheap compared for what dsl is around here
512 Kbps / 128 Kbps 768 Kbps / 256 Kbps $29.95
1 Mbps / 128 Kbps 1.5 Mbps / 384 Kbps $37.95
1.5 Mbps / 384 Kbps 2 Mbps / 384 Kbps $55.95
2 Mbps / 768 Kbps* 2.5 Mbps / 1 Mbps* $79.95*
The higher connections are for the tv also so you get bonus connect speeds. * means static ip modem rental is $5.45 per month | |
|
uhhhh
@embarqhsd.net
| .... Centruy Tel is buying Embarq, not the other way around. and they are buying it for 5.8 billion in stock. Their will be a new name also. it is in the works that the current ceo of embarq is going to be downgraded and Glen Post will be the new CEO of the combined. Since Embarq has the plans of rolling out FTTP, this makes it clear who they where preparing for as it will bring IPTV to the plate in most places. | |
|
| 
dsldude08
Premium,VIP
join:2008-01-03
La Crosse, WI | Re: .... Hitting the nail on the head right there. | |
|
|
|
|
CenturyTel Acquiring Embarq
·
here you go right off there websight!
I feel like I am being bounced around in a Telecom Pin Ball Machine. I subscribed to Sprint land line service when I moved to this area in January 2006. Sprint soon became Embarq. Now Embarq will become the Who? or What? Telephone Company. I wonder if this means that our land line rates will increase or features in my feature package will be reduced?