Re: Tangled up Over DSL - Some Cell Phone Users Demand to Stand

May 25, 2005 0 Replies


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> Some Cell Phone Users Demand to Stand Alone
> By JOHN C. ROPER
> Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
> A growing number of U.S. consumers are cutting the cord on traditional
> home telephone service, choosing instead to exclusively use cell > phones.
> But many of these consumers have found ditching their land-line phone
> service, and its accompanying cost, isn't possible if they want speedy
> DSL, or digital subscriber line, Internet service in their homes.
> Providers such as SBC Communications require customers to buy
> residential phone service to have access to their broadband lines, a
> tactic consumer advocacy groups say is unfair.
> Full story at:
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> How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
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> If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
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> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think I read somewhere -- maybe here
> in the Digest -- where SBC was going to bite the bullet also and
> begin offering 'naked DSL'. Fact or fiction? Personally, I would say
> that _whenever possible_ people just ditch telco and go with cable > internet. PAT]

They have as well as Verizon, the others will follow. I believe either the FCC or PUC here in California ordered it.


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