Sprint ION's $100/mo, 8Mbps Home Service Tanks

Dr. Zowie writes: "In the current gloomy high speed connection market, a ray of light was Sprint's ION service. For $100/month, they would provide local phone service, long distance service, and 8mbps down, 1mbps up DSL-like digital connection. I've been waiting for the service to turn on to write a review about it -- but the service has been discontinued and all orders are being cancelled. Too bad -- ION was like a geek dream come true." ION was only available to a relative handful of people, but it sure sounded good. Anyone have suggestions for this sort of combination service?

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Guerilla Moderation: not a troll but +1 Funny

[unitron]

Some days I don't mind not being chosen as a moderator considering the company I'd have to keep

Re:No wonder it tanked (Score:0, Troll)
by ENOENT on 06:37 PM October 18th, 2001 (#2449452)
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Yup, 8 millibits per second. This counts as the first implementation of IP over humpback whale song, with ones encoded as "AHOOOOOOOOHHHhhh..." and zeroes encoded as "EEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEE..."

Not only do you get phenomenal 8mbps download speeds, but also this development brings e-commerce and pr0n to the cetacean community.

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Maybe someone thinks trolls are a joke

[Stephen Samuel]

OK: You got your funny moderation, but that only gets it up to it's native '1'. Is someone else willing to add another funny moderation point to this?
(and don't worry, it was moderated with another account).

This is a job for metamod