And just what the hell am I supposed to extrapolate from these words? Please do me a favor and be more precise and less glib. Does that mean cable speed? Then I would have to use Comcast or a dixie cup. Or what don't I understand about your two word comment? I feel as though some "old guy" has just come up to me at my graduation party and whispered, "plastic." sk
----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Clarke<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: SANDRA KNIGHT<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; UCneighbors<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; University City List<mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: How Do You Spell Price Fixing? B-R-O-A-D-B-A-N-D A-C-C-E-S-S Joe C. SANDRA KNIGHT wrote: > If Verizon allowed Cavalier to operate in this region, we would be > able to have cheaper phone service and cheaper DSL service, but > Verizon keeps them out and we suffer as a result. > Sande Knight > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Suzanne B. Anderson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > *To:* Joe Clarke <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> ; University City > List <mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com<mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com>> ; UCneighbors > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > *Sent:* Monday, March 10, 2008 2:12 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Ucneighbors] Sluggish Verizon Services > > My husband is our Family IT Guy. We recently discovered that in > order to have a human being IT via Verizon, you have to pay an > extra approximate $10 per month. So, we get an on line Q. This > leads to a circle: if don't have service or crummy service and > you want to find out why, the only information source is the media > outlet that isn't working! > > I've asked our Family IT Guy about dumping the unused land line > and getting wireless. Ix nay says FITG. We don't have cable and > want to keep it that way. > > Upshot: we are stuck. It is a seller's market for DSL in our world. > > */Joe Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/>* wrote: > > I wondered if anyone else on this list has had this experience > with > Verizon Online service: It appears when you call in about your > account, > you cannot get a real live agent and instead are corralled > into an > automated answering queue for 20-30 minutes. Can they be > serious? I > also discovered that by discontinuing my phone service with > Verizon > while maintaining the DSL, you change your status to a "dry loop" > account which means you pay double the price, i.e. 70+ dollars > a month > for basic DSL! It seems like a company that is competing for our > online business would do better than that; or are they simply > trying to > discourage certain zipcodes from their services altogether and > targeting > the more affluent "FIOS covered" service areas? Redlining is > not that > old of a concept. If you notice there are no WaWa's - except > on the > perimeters - within most of West or Southwest Philadelphia; > the same is > true for Citizens'- the "people friendly"- bank which has no real > representation in West and Southwest Philadelphia. I can drive > down to > Cape May and pass by WaWa's at regular intervals along the > route right > into to the center of Cape May, itself, but it seems like the > convenience store has leap-frogged over large areas of > Philadelphia. I > guess it's all just the ebb and flow of the free market, > unless they are > receiving special aid or consideration from the city or state > while > doing business in the city. Then it would be a problem. > > Joe Clarke > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ucneighbors mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors<http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors> > > > > > Suzanne B. Anderson, MSW,LSW > > > *Somewhere in Texas a village is missing an Idiot.* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs>> > _______________________________________________ > ucneighbors mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors<http://lists.asc.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ucneighbors> >
