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Posted by Steven Lichter on May 24, 2005, 10:53 pm
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Jack Decker wrote:
> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3195270
> 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:
> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3195270
> How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
> http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html
> If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/
> [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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