Makes me glad I haven't given up my landline yet. Does anyone else remember when telephone service was considered as or more reliable than train schedules? And then the cellphone was introduced. I don't know how people put up with them.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:51 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > My cable modem died some time last night. > > I'm having a bit of trouble with my cell phone service since Verizon bought > out Altel - Verizon's tower is about 300 feet closer than Altel's tower was, > but Verizon's tower is behind a hill from where I'm located. I used to be > able to make phone calls from my desk, but now I have to go outside. > > Makes troubleshooting cable problems over the phone with Time-Warner a bit > of a PITA. > > I was able to defeat TWC's voice-response hell system & actually talk to a > real person, and convinced him it was actually the modem that was at fault. > > The office where you return/exchange equipment is only about a mile from my > house, so once I convinced the guy on the phone it was a bad modem it only > took a few minutes to exchange it & get back on line. > > But it got me to thinking I really need a POTS land-line here at the house. > > Unfortunately AT&T still has an absolute monopoly on residential phone > service here in Raleigh. I cannot get service from AT&T without paying > extortion, which I refuse to do. > > Anyway, I'm back. Y'all probably didn't even know I was gone. > > Not going to get any work done around here today, and I got out of bed > before noon specifically to do that. > > Oh well. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
