That depends on facilities, which depends on the city and Business or Residential. St. Cloud has a USLink switch for business users, home service is resold over Qwest equipment. Granted, USL colos with Qwest so eventually it touched their equipment, but at least someone real answers the phone. We switched to USL for locl and LD service, cut the bill almost in half. Qwest will always be the most expensive because they are the LEC and have higher tarriffs. (poor babies) MK On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Yes -- but it is QWest underneath. Everything you do will go through QWest, > including repairs. Much easier to just deal with QWest. > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at visi.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:53 PM > Subject: [TCLUG] New and Improved -- Qwest free > > > > Woohoo! I'm so happy. I just dumped Qwest. And, if you have Qwest now, > > and hate them as much as I do, you can get rid of them too. Anywhere you > > can get Qwest, you can get USLink (http://www.uslink.com). They don't > offer > > residential DSL yet, but they will soon. But you can certainly get your > > phone through them. $25.00 mo, with 2 free hours of long distance (extra > LD > > is 10 cents/min). I'm so happy that I'm finally Qwest free. > > > > At the risk of sounding like spam, if you mention my name when you sign > up, > > I think I get a couple bucks off my next bill. :) > > > > BTW, I just reported Qwest to the PUC today for extra charges on my bill > > which they will not remove. And when I asked Qwest for the number for the > > PUC, they wouldn't give it to me, which is a violation of law. I reported > > them for that too. > > > > Unfortunately, the ATT Broadband phone isn't available in my area yet, and > > I'm 3 blocks from Sprint's area. I've been bending over for Qwest for the > > last 5 years, and wasted countless hours of my life on the phone arguing > > with them over my bill and service. I think it's time for some > celebration. > > :) > > > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- ________________________________________________________ ReadyNET Go!, Inc. - Building your Business on the net ________________________________________________________ Mark J. Kroska MIS Director 320.656.0765 Voice 888.447.3239 Toll Free 320.203.7052 Fax http://www.readynetgo.com mailto:mkroska at readynetgo.com ________________________________________________________