QWest charges a fee when you change ISPs for DSL, the ISP's don't unless by contract. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabe Turner" <gabe at msi.umn.edu> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Qwest/M$N Deal > Well, if you're using Qwest.net now (or MSN if they've switched), Qwest (or > MSN) won't charge you to switch to a different ISP, unless, of course, > you've signed some sort of contract with them stating that you'd use their > service for given period of time. In which case you may be breaking that > contract and be subject to whatever penalties the contract stated you would > be subject to if you were to break it. > > If no such contract exists, you could easily switch ISPs, but most ISPs > charge some sort of setup fee for initiating an account with them (in my > experience, it's been in the $20-$40 range), so you may have to pay > _something_ to switch to a new ISP. > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:48:49AM -0500, dan wrote: > > Does anyone know if we will be charged to switch our DSL service over to > > another ISP if we dont want to use M$N? > > [snip] > > Gabe > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu > SGI Origin Systems Administrator, > University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute > for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >