[blu] broadband phones?

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

David Kramer writes:
| According to others here, it sounds like I might be able to do it if I
| cuss enough at the phone company, who will still charge me something
| monthly for the wire without dialtone, and Speakeasy will charge me a
| little more for running DSL over a wire without dialtone.  By the time I'm
| done, I can't imagine the monthly savings would be worth it.  I could be
| wrong, since I don't have hard numbers.

Hey, you have speakeasy.  Ask  them;  they're  selling  the
service you want in our neighborhood.  The impression I get
is that the basic service costs about the  same  as  DSL  +
POTS,  and any saving is from free long-distance calls.  If
they can do it in your  neighborhood,  and  you  make  many
long-distance calls, you'll probably save money.

Of course, they don't have an incentive to make  sure  that
you save very much money ...  ;-)