[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

[John Francini]

The acquisition is complete.

The integration of Adelphia territory into Comcast's network is only 
just beginning.

I'm quite sure that Comcast will offer the same services everywhere 
in their territories.  They're going to have to upgrade the stuff 
they've inherited from Adelphia so that they can offer the same 
services.  I'm sure they're doing all this as quickly as they can.

There are several years of neglected infrastructure investment -- 
most likely at the head end -- to be dealt with.  Remember: 
Adelphia's ownership was leaching money out of the systems for 
themselves -- that's why it went under.

j



>David Muran-de Assereto wrote:
>>  On Dec 5, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>  <snip>
>>>  Huh.  I didn't look for business cable offerings.  6 down 2 up, at a
>>>  decent price, is worth investigating if there's static IP offered.
>>  <snip>
>>
>>  Yeah, I found it by accident. My consumer connection went down, and 
>>  when I called to find out how long it wold be down, they told me 2-3 
>>  days. When I asked about alternatives, they told me that I could get 
>>  business class service, but that it was "expensive". I was paying $49 
>>  for consumer grade, and the business connection costs me $89 base for 
>>  6/2 connection with 2 IPs and 4 hour service guarantee, which is the 
>>  most important part for me.
>
>It appears the best business connection Comcast is offering in these
>here parts is 8/1, and they're not offering it in this zip code yet.  It
>may be available after they complete their acquisition of Adelphia.
>
>(Then again, it may not.)
>
>>  they host reverse DNS lookups, and I can run as 
>>  many servers as I want as long as I don't spam.
>
>Nice.
>
>
>
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