DSL subscribers may be forced to switch DSL services

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 01:34:36 am Tom Metro wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> And as I noted in the posting I
> >> linked to above, FIOS blocks ports on their business service with
> >> dynamic IP, but claims they don't if you opt for a static IP (though
> >> they never produced a terms-of-service agreement stating that).
> >
> > For the record, I pay $99.95/mo for 20Mbps down, 5Mbps up and 5 static
> > IP addresses on FiOS.
> >
> > They don't block anything on my pipe.
>
> I presume you have the business class service?

Correct.

> Can you share with us the terms of service they made you agree to? My
> suspicion is that they didn't write one specific to the static IP
> offering, and thus it will still contain language saying they can choose
> to block ports at any time.
>
> A verbal agreement from a customer rep. is plenty fine if you're running
> servers at home, but doesn't cut it if you plan to rely on the service
> for business. I want to know that they aren't going to start blocking
> ports on a whim and point to the agreement as proof that they have the
> right.

Hm... I can't recall what the terms of service were... I didn't really pay all 
that much attention beyond "you can run whatever you want to as long as it 
isn't illegal under US law and we don't block any ports", and its mostly for 
my personal stuff, not for an actual business. I thought the terms of service 
were listed somewhere on Verizon's site though.


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Jarod Wilson
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