My two cents:
Call up your local Citizen Action / PIRG affiliate or the nearest CWA local and talk to them about the market conditions in your area. There could be any number of factors behind this.
I am guessing you are not the only person justifiably hacked off about Verizon's practices. Don't fight it alone if you don't have to.
DC On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Bob Morris wrote:
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>> We're moving to a gigantic home / apartment complex(12,000 homes) that has
>> it's own apparently highly stable cable modem company and has free cable
>> TV
>> plus 5mbps net access for $20 a month.
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> 5Mbps per apartment? If not, sharing 5Mbps with 12,000+ users could suck
> quite a bit.
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> Another alternative is satellite internet, but it's slow, expensive and
>> when
>> the weather is bad, the connection can be flaky.
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> Not to forget, the latency.
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> I'd take the DSL. $15 a month is a rock bottom price.
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> I agree.
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> --ravi
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