On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Richard Hoffbeck wrote: > I used AT&T digital phone for the last couple of years and recently > switched to Vonage - I can't conceive of the circumstances that would > convince me to go back to paying twice as much to QWest for the same > services. Qwest is actually re-pricing their services to become more competitive, and I think it has a lot to do with the competition finally starting to come into play. Not that I'm a fan of Qwest, but at least they are trying to compete. > All it takes to see how lame QWest is in this business is to take a > serious look at their announcement that they are going to start offering > VoIP services to their customers. So I need a phone line to get DSL so I > can use VoIP - what's wrong with this picture :-) They may actually change that. If you read their disclosures, they *can* actually offer DSL service without analog service - the codes they use to order it are in them. They just don't let people buy this service; not sure if it's because it's hard to loop qualify people without an analog circuit to relate to, or if they are just being the big 'ol monopoly. I've also seen times where the analog side of a phone line is dead, but DSL still works fine. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list