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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. | |
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Mukwonago, WI | Re: wow Hmmm, I pay $40 for 10mbps from CTL. | |
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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. | |
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Princeton Junction, NJ | Re: wow So will people's high speed internet still cost $24.95 up to the year 2525, like their commercial said. | |
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Newton, 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? | |
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New Freedom, PA | Re: wow Yeah! The slowest of 3G Aircards on the market.. Oh wait forgot Tmo... | |
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kudos:4 | 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.
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kudos:2 | 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. | |
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| 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
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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. | |
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| | | | | said by EPS: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. they'd be smart to keep the Embarq name--at least some of America knows the name "Embarq" because it's the largest independent telco, but CenturyTel? Not only is the name cheesy, but no-one has ever heard of it before.
It's like when SBC kept getting bigger and bigger...it made more sense to keep the name AT&T than to continue being called "SBC".....let's just hope CenturyTel is that smart.
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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? | |
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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.
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New Freedom, PA | XOHM willnt fail.. Besides there is a merger in the making with Clearwire... Remember? Should be done by year end..  | |
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| | 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!" | |
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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. | |
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kudos:2 | 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. | |
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Hopewell Junction, NY | Re: Again? hopefully windstream acquires frontier to free me from this hell  | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Again? Ah that's right. WS will buy Frontier, creating a bigger Windstream. CenturyTel will acquire Embarq, leaving us with ???
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| Re: here you go right off there websight! 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.
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Brilliant, AL | 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. | |
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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. | |
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| 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
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currently I have access to these speeds with Embarq (complete with pricing if you have dry DSL)
768k: $29.95
1.5 meg: $34.95
3 meg: $39.95
5 meg: $49.95
10 meg: $64.95
subtract $10 if you have a bundled package.
CenturyTel? Doesn't allow you to have naked/dry DSL...not only that, but the only speed they offer (I don't consider 256k even remotely viable) is 1.5 megabits...and that's more than Embarq's 3 meg package (and it appears that the 15 meg is ONLY available to FTTH customers).
The only thing good I can say about CenturyTel is that it's unlimited...
This totally ruined my week; I just got Embarq's DSL less than 2 weeks ago, and I find this information today....I was looking forward to semi-decently priced DSL, good speeds, and naked/dry DSL....*sigh*.
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kudos:1 | Maybe... The service will be better here once they fully take over!  | |
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| | | 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. | |
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kudos:1 | 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! | |
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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*
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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?