Pfaugh.

[unixronin]

Sprint has screwed up our phone bill.  There's three long-distance calls on the latest bill to places where we don't even know anyone, made at times when we're virtually ALWAYS online.  Not only that, but one of them would have had to be over $1.80 per minute, and we're supposed to be on a 6.5¢/minute long distance plan.  Only one of the three calls in question is actually consistent with our billing plan.

So now we have to go argue with them.

I SO wish we could ditch Sprint.  They are without a doubt the worst telco we have ever had service from.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the job thingy... if you get really lucky you could move into one of those complexes with the shared T-1 (although these days I hope it's a little more than a *single* T-1) and good cell coverage and tell the monopoly idiots to go piss in their hats...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'll freely admit to giving serious thought to options involving not having landline telco service at all.
My only major reservation is that when the power goes down, the cell towers tend to go down, but the landlines tend to keep working at least until the CO UPSen run dry.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

There is that. Although frankly, after the Nisqually quake, we learned that the most reliable commo (around here, anyway) is in fact a good DSL or other hard-wired data line. Our netlink in Renton never went down; I pinged Georgia Tech via Speakeasy's switch in the SIX scant seconds after the shaking stopped.... It took about 40-45 minutes to get a dial tone, and even longer after that to get useable signal from the cells (the tower carrier was up, but it couldn't get a landline to put the call thru)...

But, yes, it never hurts to have a landline for, say, backup dialup...