Many users apparently don't care for CenturyLink [telecom]

According to a website called, appropriately enough, pissedconsumer.com, CenturyLink isn't making many friends lately. Of course, annonymous statements have to be taken with a grain of salt, but here's a tip: when people make basic grammar and spelling mistakes, it's often due to anger.

One example:

"After being lied to twice about their service and the price. I cancelled service before it was set up only to be billed for their mistake. I received absolutely no service from them, yet have been turned in for debt collection because of their mistake."

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Also, from the 'Broadand Expert' web-site:

BroadbandExpert users don't care for CenturyLink

CenturyLink High Speed Internet Reviews show below-average performance: users complain of low peak-hours speed.

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Former Northwest Bell/PNWB/USWest users can't get a break. When LCI/Qwest took over USWest (one of the companies formed when the "consent decree" happened in January of 1984) hasn't been able to catch a break. Early on they decided that wireless wasn't a service that would really do them any good, so they sold USWest Cellular to Airtouch PLC, which became Verizon. A few years later they decided that maybe they should try wireless again, so they made a whole new network and operated a CDMA PCS network. Then, Qwest took over, and I guess they didn't know how to operate a PCS network either, and sold the plant to Sprint -- eventually all customers became part of Verizon Wireless. But that's neither here nor there. I knew from the outset, when Qwest got sold out to CenturyLink, that we'd have a situation not entirely dissimilar to what happened in northern New England -- where Verizon bowed out in favor of FairPoint. We've got a company that doesn't know how to run a big area like USWest/Qwest had; the ongoing screwing up of orders, and all the other stuff that's going on with CL. I was never so glad to go completely wireless back in June of 2000 and knowing that I'd never have to deal with Qwest or their successor again.