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Author Cutting the Cord
fialkoff@gmail.com

2006-02-23, 5:48 pm

Hi-

I am a TV producer in Connecticut looking for people who use their
mobile phone as their sole phone... instead of having a landline in
addition to their mobile phone.

If anyone knows of someone in Connecticut who's doing this, please drop
me a line at josh.fialkoff@nbcuni.com.

Thanks!

-Josh

Isaiah Beard

2006-02-24, 2:48 am

fialkoff@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I am a TV producer in Connecticut looking for people who use their
> mobile phone as their sole phone... instead of having a landline in
> addition to their mobile phone.


No offense, but isn't this kinda old news? I "cut the cord" back '99.

Of course recent events forced me to get DSL for broadband and now I
have a landline, only I have it on the lowest billing tier (doesn't even
have "touch tone" dialing much less any other features) and I don't use
it for anything.




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jay

2006-02-24, 5:48 pm

I have the same issue.

A better TV report would be to expose how phone companies rip customers off
by forcing them to use home phone service even if they only want DSL.


"Isaiah Beard" < sacredpoet@sacredpoe
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> fialkoff@gmail.com wrote:
>
> No offense, but isn't this kinda old news? I "cut the cord" back '99.
>
> Of course recent events forced me to get DSL for broadband and now I
> have a landline, only I have it on the lowest billing tier (doesn't even
> have "touch tone" dialing much less any other features) and I don't use
> it for anything.
>
>
>
>
> --
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> Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.



Jeremy

2006-02-24, 5:48 pm


"jay" <someone@alltel.net> wrote in message
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>I have the same issue.
>
> A better TV report would be to expose how phone companies rip customers
> off
> by forcing them to use home phone service even if they only want DSL.
>
>
> "Isaiah Beard" < sacredpoet@sacredpoe
t.com> wrote in message
> news:11vt0c6567cfp41
@corp.supernews.com...
>
>


Here in Philadelphia, Verizon recently began selling "Naked DSL." No local
POTS line required.

Have you checked to see if your local telco has recently changed its tariff
on this?


Mike T.

2006-02-24, 5:48 pm

> Here in Philadelphia, Verizon recently began selling "Naked DSL." No
> local POTS line required.
>


That would be AWESOME. -Dave


Jeremy

2006-02-24, 5:48 pm


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> That would be AWESOME. -Dave
>


Who is your local telco?


Dave

2006-02-24, 11:48 pm


>
> Who is your local telco?


Not verizon, anymore. :( -Dave



Slick

2006-02-26, 5:48 pm

My daughter did the same thing in Boston suburbs this January. Verizon DSL
in her apartment w/o land line. Cost is $19.95/month for DSL 768k down
/128k up. They assign a local number but it has no phone. I did test it
and there is a dial tone, but didn't try to dial. Her contact number with
Verizon uses the Wash DC area code on her cell phone.

Neither of my two kids have had a land line since 2000. Same cell phone
numbers and between them they've lived in DC, Arlington VA, Vienna VA,
Redondo Beach CA, Bristol RI, Watertown MA.

Another point - both of them have people with "open" WiFi routers that they
can connect with. One takes advantage of the free internet. The other
subscribes to DSL and I've locked down the WiFi on her router pretty tight
so she doesn't share the bandwidth unknowingly.

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> "jay" <someone@alltel.net> wrote in message
> news:266fb$43fed498$
97d5967e$20292@ALLTE
L.NET...
>
> Here in Philadelphia, Verizon recently began selling "Naked DSL." No
> local POTS line required.
>
> Have you checked to see if your local telco has recently changed its
> tariff on this?
>



SMS

2006-02-26, 5:48 pm

Mike T. wrote:
>
> That would be AWESOME. -Dave


It sounds awesome until you find out the price. More than regular DSL
plus the lowest cost land line service.
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