On Dec 13, 2006, at 4:54 PM, McClelland, Scott wrote:
Pros:
Since AT&T took over PacBell, my phone bill doubled. Time Warner
offers
a flat rate.
Cons:
One disadvantage I see with cable, is that if the power goes out, so
does your phone service.
Ever since getting screwed by PacBell cum SBC cum AT&T, we moved to a
full package from Cox when we moved into Cox territory: phone,
internet and tv. The phone service is actually cheaper that from
PacBell, for our use case of telephony (most of our outgoing calls
are done via cell anyway). The Cox Internet service has been more
reliable than my own computers, which is good enough for me.
Note, too, that the Cox Telephone setup is done such that the phone
service is independently powered from the house, so that a power
failure in the neighborhood won't take out the phone service. In
fact, there's a natural gas generator sitting right next to the large
neighborhood node box around the corner in case _that_ power fails, too.
Not to mention that our section of Santee (the West Hills area @ Mast
Blvd.) is very poorly wired, and AT&T seems quite unwilling to
upgrade the local CO to provide DSL, so Cox is the only broadband
networking option.
Gregory
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