[ale] Naked DSL from Bellsouth?

[Brian Whigham]

Steve,
Your premise that we've reverted back to the old days is entirely 
wrong.  We never left the old days.  Bellsouth has been trying to dance 
around the idea for years.  Of course they won't sell you DSL without a 
landline.  They have little financial reason to do so.  A sorry attempt 
to show that they're trying is Athens' wireless network. It requires CPE 
and one must live within the Hwy 10 loop around Athens to be eligible.  
It's a pre Wi-Max network.

However, if you are a Bellsouth DSL reseller (i.e. www.negia.net) (and 
possibly even a member of FISPA), you can get a naked connection (AKA 
'inward-only line') for a mere $20/month, plus DSL fees.

In spite of this, I like DSL better than cable.  Its been much more 
stable and provided better, cleaner bandwidth in my experience.

Brian

Steve Tynor wrote:

>I've been having a spate of outages on my Comcast cable service lately 
>and am looking around for alternatives.  I'm a reasonably happy Vonage 
>VOIP user -- the only problems I have with Vonage appear to be directly 
>related to problems on the underlying cable connection. I'm in the 
>Atlanta area and our neighborhood has fiber - before we switched to 
>Comcast, we had Bellsouth DSL and no other DSL provider would offer DSL 
>to us due to the need to use fiber-specific SLIC's (?).  This seems to 
>still be true after calling Earthlink.
>
>To make a long story short, I am irritated enough at Comcast to want to 
>move back to Bellsouth and pay an extra $10/month for "naked DSL" only 
>to be told by the phone droids that they do not offer such a thing. 
>Their website suggests they do, but google reinforces their story that 
>they don't (a slew of mid-2005 press releases saying the FCC had 
>reversed its ruling requiring Bellsouth to offer naked DSL).
>
>Is it true?  Have we really reverted back to the bad old days where 
>Bellsouth requires $18+ of local phone service in order to sell you a 
>DSL line?
>
>Steve
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