It is because they are moving in for the kill and then they will have a
Monopoly.  Covad is on its way out.  Once that happens, it will be just like
the old QWest, except DSL will almost certainly cost more.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Kilbane" <colin at tyr.med.umn.edu>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Qwest -- wow!


> Those quest people are acting strange.  They are actually nice and prompt.
> It must be aliens, Aliens I tell you!!!
>
> Colin Kilbane
>
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:33:59PM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> > > >Ordered Qwest DSL yesterday, probably about 1:00pm.  9:15 this
morning
> > > >they had the guy out checking the pole -- continuity, tagged with
circuit
> > > >no.  and should be done.  (I won't mention that it's good that I
talked to
> > > >him because he was *this* close to running it to my neighbor's
house.)
> > >
> > > That was probably your neighbors line, he'll be screwed now.
> >
> > Nope.  I saw the work order, and she doesn't have a computer anyway.
But
> > I'm still waiting for t'other shoe to drop.  Could it be Real-Time
> > needing a week to make up a price?  Nahhh...  It'll probably be that the
> > modem gets sent to St. Peter instead of St. Paul.
> >
> > --
> > "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous
> >
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