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California Orders SBC to Split Phone, DSL Service
An anonymous reader points to this report at overclockersclub.com which begins "The great state of California has ruled that SBC Communications must sell local phone service and broadband service separately. This gives SBC customers the option to change local phone providers and/or choose any DSL company they wish."
Go Pistons.
But doesn't this infringe on the company's constituional right to screw over their customers?
Once again, California is one step ahead of the rest of the country.
You can say *that* again
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
The state of California has also ruled that SBC has an unfair adventage versus competition in the accidental severing of network backbones. The government of California has ordered SBC to let passers by operate their equipment so that all unskilled people who wish accidentally sever buried lines have an equal chance.
"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself."
So a step ahead... yes... we'll go over the cliff before everyone else.
Have you figured out yet that the rest of us are standing behind you with a pointy stick?
KFG
this is one case where I don't think anyone will save money (unless they are willing to put up with a great deal of angst)
Yeah, but I've been asking for this for literally YEARS. I don't need or want a land-line voice connection. The only people who call me on it are f*cking telemarketers from SBC trying to sell my their long-distance service, which I also don't need or want. Even my parents have recognized that they should call my cell phone if they want to talk to me. I haven't answered my land line phone in at least the last six months.
You may like your bundle, but all I want from SBC is DSL for $25/month, without the extra $10 for phone service that I don't use and then additional $10 in taxes and fees that are charged on top of that phone service I don't use.
If it's true, this will immediately save me $250 or more every year.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I switched local phone providers away from SBC a year or two ago. Service just as good, and $10-$15/month cheaper.
Then I dropped cable internet in favor of DSL (from the same alternate provider). Their DSL normal rate is the same as SBCs "introductory" three-month rate (I didn't even look at what the SBC "normal" rate would be, and it certainly wan't obvious).
What's most funny is the commercials that SBC was running for awhile, picturing burly linemen putting up telephone poles, complaining that their competitors were operating "over OUR lines, over OUR networks". Uh, you bought the baby bell like a couple of years ago. I doubt you've wired 0.5% of the damn network.