You should try paying Verizon in Advance, they sent me to collections because I had a negative balance on my account for 3 months. Took me 6 months after closing my account to get them to correct the late payment charges and send me a refund.
-- http://dcp.dcptech.com > -----Original Message----- > From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 3:18 PM > To: Constantine A. Murenin > Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List > Subject: Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Constantine A. Murenin > <muren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, that's AT&T for you: already has the network, already has the > > price structure, already has the marketing going, already has all the > > passive and active equipment installed that's capable of vastly > > superior speeds, already has the customers willing to pay more each > > month for faster speeds, and already has customers abandoning FTTU > > services because of artificially-imposed speed limitations, yet T > > still can't be bothered to flip some provisioning bits. > > And then there's the ATT U-Verse outage for the better part of a week. > > http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/24/tech/web/uverse-outage-att/index.html > > > On the other hand, I've been unsuccessfully trying to pay my Verizon > Fios bill for a month now. The credit card died two months ago. They > keep trying to bill it. Can't log in to the linked account online. The > web site mentions that a temporary password can be had from the paper > bill they haven't sent in the better part of a decade. After hours on > the phone the representative "opened a ticket with IT." > > They sent me an email reminding me that their billing failed. With no > return contact information, just an invitation to log in to my > non-working account and pay it. What fun! > > -Bill > > > -- > William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004