As far as I'm concerned the phone companies are not our friend. They
intend to compete with us, as Mike mentions below, using resources they
pay very little for.
I'm curious to know what you mean by cheating, Matt, and who you are
referring to. Isn't ADSL cheating? I mean, in this case we're asking the
telephone company for a cheap "dry" line across town and I'm sure none of
us would be stupid enough to tell them "it's so I can pump high speed
digital data to a customer without paying for a T1."
It's bad enough 9x can't do a simple thing without us having to try
several times.
-Jason
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Mike Rodriguez wrote:
> At 11:15 AM 10/25/96 -0400, Matthew S. Crocker wrote:
>
> >> $20 a month was for RESIDENTIAL USE of lines. You use them for a business,
> >> you should pay business rates... you cheated, you got caught, now you're
> >> screwed, and I seriuosly doubt your public service commission is going
> >> to have much sympathy for you. 19 ISP's here in Tennessee got caught too.
> >
> >Just wish some of the ISP's in this area would get caught....
> >
> >It doesn't matter what the RBOC's charge you as long as its fair. If
> >everybody plays by the same rules you can be competitive. If you have to
> >cheat to win you are a sorry excuse for a business.
>
> Cheat? What about Bell South selling 'unlimited' PPP for $20? They
> own the lines and therefor pay WAY, WAY less than residential rates,
> they, by virtue of their monopoly, have the name, address and phone
> number of EVERY one of my potential customers, and they use that
> information to direct mail advertise. They're certainly not playing
> by the same rules.
>
> Who's the cheater here?
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