[oclug] yet another ISP thread

[Brad Barnett]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:04:04 -0400
"Oren Mazor" <oren.mazor at gmail.com> wrote:

> But I dont need nor want a phone line

Clearly.  However, at $8 per month for a landline, one could reduce their
cell phone plan a bit, perhaps, and use their landline instead when home.

My general grouse is the cost of that naked line... $17 bucks is a joke,
it does *not* take Bell $17 to maintain that line.  I might buy $1 per
month as ongoing maintenance costs, but $17?  Pfft!

Bell was recently ready to roll out fibre to every home... at
least they were a year ago.  I've heard they dropped this idea, deeming it
unfeasible for the near future.  What we really have here, is a bunch of
union protected, technological neophytes living on their historical power
base.  Hell, they don't even _see_ that power base eroding!

Frankly, I don't really see Bell Canada's future as all that rosy. 


> 
> On 8/1/06, Brad Barnett <lists at l8r.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Considering the cost differential between naked DSL and a landline, it
> > really isn't worth it.  I believe, that time I checked, the "naked"
> > line was something on the order of $17 bucks.  What is it, $8 more for
> > a phone number at that point?
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:53:07 -0400
> > "Oren Mazor" <oren.mazor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I checked that out, but its not very clear on whether they offer
> > > naked DSL or not. I dont have a landline.
> > >
> > > I did send them an email though.
> > >
> > > Oren
> > >
> > > On 8/1/06, Spencer Cheng <scheng at aotera.org> wrote:
> > > > Oren,
> > > >
> > > > Try National Capital Freenet. http://www.ncf.ca
> > > >
> > > > They offer (relatively) cheap ADSL service.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Spencer
> > > >
> > > > On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:46, Oren Mazor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm honestly tired of chasing cybersurf. I recently moved and
> > > > > decided to try and support the little guy, but we're now on the
> > > > > fourth week and after being stood up repeatedly by them to show
> > > > > up, I'm moving on.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is anybody here using naked DSL? I tried both magma and bell but
> > > > > I keep being thrown into hold purgatory and there is nothing
> > > > > about it on either company's website.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd hate to have to resort to using rogers, but it seems that
> > > > > I'm running out of alternatives and having the internet is a
> > > > > basic necessity (I work on remote projects), I'm tired of going
> > > > > to bridgehead every night to work. Coffee's great though :)
> > > > >
> > > >
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