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[telecom] Verizon to require landline as part of DSL package

Verizon to require landline as part of DSL package Move will affect new customers By Gail Waterhouse

Globe Correspondent / April 7, 2012

Verizon will require new customers who want its high-speed DSL Internet service to also buy a landline phone connection, a move the company said would allow it to better control costs.

The telecommunications giant told customers this week it would no longer offer high-speed Internet service as a standalone feature. As of May 6, people who want its DSL high-speed service will need to add a landline connection to their account.

But Parul P. Desai, policy counsel at Consumers Union, said she believed the move makes little sense for consumers, many of whom are moving away from landline use.

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Monty Solomon
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FWIW this is standard practice in the UK for consumer broadband (and always has been since the original ADSL services)

you have to have a phone line to "host" DSL in the 1st place, and if the line gets ceased or moved to an alternate provider then the DSL service goes as well.

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Reply to
Stephen

In Australia you can get "Naked" DSL services or have different Voice and DSL providers, most companies offer "bundles"of DSL and Voice but because of the choice in the marketplace no one makes it compulsory.

-- Regards, David.

David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.

Reply to
David Clayton

Per Monty Solomon:

I assumed that was the main idea: to stop the hemmorraging of revenue as people use services like Skype.

Reply to
Pete Cresswell

What Verizon needs is a data rate schedule that takes into account operator setup charges and per minute charges to maintain the connection.

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Adam H. Kerman

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