Re: [TCLUG:15736] MediaOne

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jason Jorgensen wrote:
> The IDENTICAL thing happened to me. Added a second phone line to my house so i
> could use mediaone's one way cable modem and still have a voice line. When i
> wanted to switch to DSL, USWest's loopback test failed and they told me i
> couldnt have dsl. It was their fault the loopback failed. They installed a
> digital line splitter on my house instead of running new copper. They wouldnt
> remove the splitter even though i canceled the second line. I also called
> Onvoy and they said no problem. He came out and ran a line to my computer room
> before the splitter to my house. Its a nice SDSL 768k pipe.
> For some reason Onvoy can tell USWest to do things that their CUSTOMERS cant.
> Someone told me Covad co-locates servers with uswest and since i was in uswest
> territory, covad told uswest what they wanted done and they have to do it
> because of some Telco Tariff??? Dont know what thats all about.

Yeah, Onvoy pretty much sued the pants off USWest because of some of the
new laws, and managed to get control to make USWest do pretty much
anything. At least, that's what I've been told. :)

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