Verizon rant

[nbodley at speakeasy.net (Nicholas Bodley)]

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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:09:53 -0500, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> The cable modem comes with 2 battery slots, but in his case, no  
> batteries.

{LOL, quietly, more like COL -- chuckling}

Recently, I swapped a Bunch of Stuff for a binary LED clock (amazing  
number of interesting patterns) and a nice APC Back-UPS 650 with a good  
battery. Now that I have a[n] UPS (which could power the phone box), what  
to do with my phone is once again up in the air -- Verizon's  
whatever-they-call-it wide-area (CONUS) untimed residential service, or  
Speakeasy VoIP? Right now, it's POTS -- plain old telephone service,  
although the CO seemed to ignore pulse dialing that I recently tried  
(Citizens Bank auto info.) for the heck of it. (No more possibility of  
careful rattling of the "hook switch" to dial 911...)

I still, so far, would recommend Verizon for ADSL. Not an any hurry to  
abandon Speakeasy, although they are more costly.

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Nicholas Bodley  /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
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