[geeks] And Verizon scores again

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>Date: 2006/12/09 Sat PM 01:57:54 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [geeks] And Verizon scores again

>The fun goes on ... Verizon sent out a technician yesterday morning to
>mark the provisioned wire pair for Covad for our impending new Speakeasy
>DSL service.  In the course of "marking" the wire pair, he managed to
>lose our dial tone, although DSL still worked (so I didn't realize
>immediately that the phones were offline).

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A couple times (three times over 7 years), Verizon "stole" my phone line (which had my DSL service as well as POTS) and gave the line to someone else in my neighborhood, since their records indicated the pair was "spare"... Like you, I realized when internet connectivity was gone...

Lionel