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Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL'

Posted by timothy on from the marketing-ideas-are-too-easy dept.

hussar writes "Qwest is expected to announce today its plan to delink telephone service from its DSL offering. Given some comments I have seen in /. discussions of broadband issues, the plan, nicknamed 'naked DSL,' should be a welcome change." Update: 02/25 13:55 GMT by T : cpfeifer points to the Wall Street Journal's coverage.

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  1. Naked DSL... by lacrymology.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... so is it optimized for D/Ling pr0n?

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    1. Re:Naked DSL... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It was a "costume malfunction" and QWEST didn't know anything about it.

  2. Mwhahaha by dolo666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    DSL strips naked, /. morphs into Fark & boobies hilarity ensues! (geek style)

  3. just a couple days late by meadowreach · · Score: 5, Funny

    And to think, last Friday I switched from dsl to cable because I didn't want a land line anymore, and Qwest required one to have DSL.

    1. Re:just a couple days late by Walkiry · · Score: 1, Funny

      Aha, so you're the one that made all the difference, feel special! :D

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    2. Re:just a couple days late by pogle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Gah. Wish I had your problem. A phoneline is cheap. I have to pay $82 a month for my cable modem because they require extended basic cable at my ISP. They're worried about people stealing cable if they just sell cable modem service. Nevermind the fact that I've got DirecTV with superior channels...

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  4. Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about "know your customer!"

  5. DSL Gone Wild by big_O_of_n! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I predict a huge surge in subscriptions before people realize they misinterpreted the nickname.

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  6. law suits by midg3t · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if there'll be messages exchanged between Jamie Oliver's law-brains and Qwest's regarding use of the term "Naked". Hopefully the brits aren't quite as touchy about trademarking as some are.

  7. Would this be... by SmackCrackandPot · · Score: 1, Funny

    DSL unplugged...?

  8. Yes but. . . by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    when you get the bill, youll be looking like the goatse guy.

  9. Re:Great! by josecanuc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, if you've been harassing them "for a while now", it appears that they get all of your money.

  10. Good .. that will save me $15/month, by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 1, Funny

    because I use my land line so little that it took three months for us to notice that our telephone is broken.

  11. Re:Implications by mazarin5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, you know...
    ...this would be really good for VOIP!

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  12. Verizon and degraded service by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    It makes me wonder if the Telecoms are deliberately providing this slightly degraded service.

    As if Verizon could do anything else?

  13. Can we get Janet Jackson by Darth23 · · Score: 2, Funny

    to do the Superbowl commercial for the new service?

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  14. Thats funny... by LamerX · · Score: 2, Funny

    But at my house I have no voice lines, but I do have a DSL line. Advanced Telcom Group (www.callatg.com) set me up with it. It's $79.00/mo and they have no cap on your service speed. Speeds are based on whatever you can get at your location. So if you qualify for 7mbit service, you get it at that price. Unfortunately my line only qualified at 3mbit/768kbit. Wait, unfortunately? Hahaha if I got DSL like that from Qwest it would be a few hundred dollars per month. Haha Qwest suXors!!

  15. Naked is good! by bluethundr · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if there is a figleaf over port 25 and tassles over ports 21 and 21 and a gstring covering 80...I'll go pick up a girlie magazine instead.

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  16. Re:You'll be sorry by GPB · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's pretty funny. Rebooting the DSLAM will knock more customers offline than just you. Go Qwest Customer service!

    Reminds me of the time Qwest "lost" the information that tells them what port my line was plugged into. To find it, they had me on the phone asking me if my modem's link light went off as they started unplugging cables one by one.

    I switched soon after that.

    -B