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How about not giving CenturyLink 3 billion dollars over six years to bring coverage to rural areas and then not holding them accountable? The fuckers are using that money to open up only in "new markets" where competing providers near one of their coverage areas start providing coverage instead. Meanwhile the other rural areas that no one's tried to serve yet are still not being covered, six billion dollars later. Just to put this into perspective, that amount of money equals just a bit under $20 for every single man, woman, and child in the United States, from newborns to the near-dead. The money came from somewhere, isn't being used for what it was supposed to, and there is zero accountability.

CenturyLink asks for an SSN just to email customer service. See https://www.centurylink.com/ho...

The argument that they don't have customers is not nearly as clear as they suggest -- what matters is what is in the contract, not how they actually provide services through affiliates.

Read through, for example, the digial phone subscriber terms of service that contains the dispute resolution clause involved in those products.

Does it identify the corporate entity that is on the other side of the transaction? (hint: "In this agreement, we use the terms 'we,' 'us' or 'our' to mean CenturyLink.")

Does it mention any local or operating company? (hint: run a word search)

Does the notice section clarify any of this?

If you want to provide notice to us either because this agreement requires it or
because you have a matter you want to bring to our attention, you should notify us at the customer
service telephone number on your bill or write us at 1801 California Street, Suite 900, Denver,
Colorado 80202, Attn: Legal Department.

Does the agreement contain an "integration clause" that says that all other information or representations are to be disregarded? (hint: section 8. H.)

So who is to say that the CenturyLink holding company is not a party to the subscriber agreement? Who might have drafted the agreements (which apparently are identical no matter which operating company serves the customer)?

If you look at the basic agreements, only the High-Speed Internet and Internet Access Services Residential Terms and Conditions (updated in fall 2017l) actually specifies that the agreement for that product is with a particular affiliate providing services. Both the digital phone and TV service agreements do not. Earlier versions of the internet agreements may not have as well...

This isn't going to get them a quick dismissal without judicial findings of fact...

Shockingly, it specifically states there isn't a cap.

CenturyLink is committed to providing an optimal Internet experience for every customer we serve. It is for this reason that CenturyLink places data usage limits on residential plans. The data usage limit applies to residential HSI. It does not apply to business-class HSI. Residential 1 Gbps plans are also not subject to data usage limits.

- http://www.centurylink.com/abo...

Stay the hell away from CenturyLink. In Yakima, WA, they've been completely taken over by numpties. They've also gone to usage-based billing; http://www.centurylink.com/dat.... Yakima, WA is circling the drain. For example: https://www.yakimawa.gov/counc...

The ACLU scammed the city (https://aclu-wa.org/cases/montes-v-city-yakima-0), but no one seems to give-a-dam.

To be fair, there are plenty of reasons to not live in Yakima in the first place.

Bandwidth caps are BULLSHIT.

On CenturyLink, if you're under 7mbps speed, you get a 300GB cap. Over 7mbps, you get a 600GB cap. Luckily, these are higher than 6 months ago when I signed up, which was at 150GB and 300GB respectively. However, if you're on a 1gbps line, you're uncapped. This is completely arbitrary. So, if 100 users at 5mbps saturated their link non-stop, they would consume 500mbps, and hit their cap pretty damn quick. Whereas a single 1gbps user using only 50% of their capacity can do so endlessly without penalty at all, while consuming exactly the same amount of bandwidth.

Source: http://www.centurylink.com/hel...

The Wayback Machine hasn't taken a snapshot of that page since the offered link was retrieved. The point of the link was to show that Outlook 2016 was not on the list at a point after release. Was it on the list a month ago? No one can say either way. When was it added to the list? No one can say that either. What we know is that it's on the list at least as of yesterday and it wasn't on the list at least one month after 2016 was released. It is plausible that it wasn't on the list a month ago and wasn't supported a month ago and OP never claimed to have up-to-the-minute knowledge of the client list.

The problem is not that someone else decided to show up and say that it's supported and provide links to prove it. Instead of just saying "according to them 2016 is a supported client now" they offered up combative arrogance: "I'm right as fuck, you're wrong and stupid, hand in your tech card." puto was also incorrect when saying "they do not support Thunderbird or any of the Outlooks" as the provided email clients link specifies that their tech support offers support for all of them at least as of yesterday.

If you'd actually read your own link before posting it...

How convenient that you ignored puto's first link that does show instructions for Outlook 2016. But to be more explicit, look at the email clients page. The clients listed with an asterisk next to the name are not supported by their tech support. Outlook 2016 is listed and it doesn't have an asterisk next to it. Therefore, it is a supported client.

There's no need for you to be a dick.

There is no need to be abusive just because what you claim is not matched by the written evidence on their website.

If you'd actually read your own link before posting it you'd notice a list of step-by-step client setup instructions with Outlook 2016 distinctly missing from the list. You may also notice that the telephone conversation with CenturyLink isn't posted on their website, so it's not surprising that you're unaware of certain information that your Google-Fu may not reveal. There's no need for you to be a dick.

Really? Centurly links website begs to differ. https://internethelp.centuryli... They allow you to use them, but they do not "support" them in the sense that anything outside of a basic setup and troubleshooting. And guess what, they do not support Thunderbird or any of the Outlooks. http://www.centurylink.com/hel... You might want to hand in your "tech" card.

Really? Centurly links website begs to differ. https://internethelp.centuryli... They allow you to use them, but they do not "support" them in the sense that anything outside of a basic setup and troubleshooting. And guess what, they do not support Thunderbird or any of the Outlooks. http://www.centurylink.com/hel... You might want to hand in your "tech" card.

You can get 1.5 Mbps broadband from comcast or centurytel for $10/month.

https://apply.internetessentia... http://www.centurylink.com/hom...

The 10.00 per month is meaningless to a family who is in poverty. "It's only 10.00" sounds really good when you are not in poverty. I came from poverty so know what it's like not to be able to eat because I had a bill to pay.

Perhaps you are volunteering to pay some of those 10.00/month fees for families and I just misunderstand, but you can call me a skeptic.

This.

If you're actually poor, $10 a month is a fortune.

Today however, it's pretty easy to find free wifi. Maybe not at your house but a lot of places from coffee shops to libraries offer it.

You can get 1.5 Mbps broadband from comcast or centurytel for $10/month.

https://apply.internetessentia... http://www.centurylink.com/hom...

The 10.00 per month is meaningless to a family who is in poverty. "It's only 10.00" sounds really good when you are not in poverty. I came from poverty so know what it's like not to be able to eat because I had a bill to pay.

Perhaps you are volunteering to pay some of those 10.00/month fees for families and I just misunderstand, but you can call me a skeptic.

You can get 1.5 Mbps broadband from comcast or centurytel for $10/month.

https://apply.internetessentia...
http://www.centurylink.com/hom...

Ok here is the bloated form for people like you who can't seem to operate a search engine and need every term explained to them or directly linked.

Docker (which is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud) isn't niche. It is one of the core technologies for DevOps (a concept dealing with, among other things: software development, operations, and services. It emphasizes communication, collaboration, and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) operations personnel) which is designing application infrastructures where IT provides a platform for in-house and integrate micro-services (that are small, independent processes communicating with each other using language-agnostic APIs to form complex applications) rather than providing monolithic applications (single-tiered software applications in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform) to departments. Many PaaS (Platform as a Service, a category of cloud computing services that provides a computing platform and a solution stack as a service) systems are based on Docker particularly Helion, CenturyLink, Rackspace its a big player for AWS...

So much easier to understand right?

The ToS of any residential service I've ever heard of expressly prohibits "servers".

Then you haven't heard of them all. Qwest (now Century Link, but I think the old Qwest territory is still under slightly different terms) allows servers according to their agreement (and my conversation with customer service in which I had to get a port unblocked--they're my ISP): "Service may be used to host a server, personal or commercial, as lon gas such server is used pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement applicalbe to Service and not for any malicious purposes...".

Of course, elsewhere in the agreement, it says that you need business service if you're using it for commercial purposes--but there's nothing stopping me from running small Web and mail services on my residential account for my personal use. Of course, I wouldn't really want to do much else on a typical, constrained upload-bandwidth residential ADSL account, either...