Yesterday I sat around waiting for the phone company to send a repairman, and looks like tomorrow I'll be doing it again. Yesterday they restored the dial tone, but there's still a loud hum on the line. This happens on the average of once every 3 months. The phone poles behind my apt. are old and decrepit and whenever it snows (or the sun shines too hard) my phone goes out. They never really fix the problem. The repairman does some kind of patch and then the phone's OK for a while, then the cycle starts again. I'm supposed to sit and wait from 8 am to 7pm and if they don't show up (which they often don't) I go through the whole thing on another day. According to one of the repairmen, the company had several million marked for infrastructure repair and it all went to CEOs in the last merger. I totally believe it. Anyway, the company's name is VERIZON (stupid name--like a ten year old's idea of clever: "vertical + horizon"? gimme a break) and they SUCK.
i recomand thier cellular service, take your home phone on the road.......
Thanks. I do have T-Mobile (formerly Voicestream formerly Omnipoint) to use when my land line breaks down, but I seem to be one of those people who don't take to cell phones well. (A lot of it's being a baby about audibility/connectivity issues.) Bill is the opposite with cell phone use. He picked it right up.
had to, owed V $$$ / now using voicestream, ney easyspeak prepaid w/ a Motorola
ive had the phone company here twice in the past two weeks and one other time in the last six weeks. and, stupid me, i figured the last time they were here theyd get the job done right. i even had two crews arrive nearly simultaneously for the same job. well, they fixed one problem but left me with another. i cant make outgoing phone calls, only receive them. so, i have to make another appointment and wait out another day.
A few months back I had the opposite problem: I could make outgoing calls but I had no idea people were calling me. If Bill hadn't knocked on my door I would have just assumed I'd become terribly unpopular, even with the Policeman's Benevolent Fund.
I just got my ATT bill. It's got my name on it, but the number and the calls belong to someone else...
i hate both companys but we do need them....
We only need them because our government sold them huge parts of our radio specturm, and the FCC prohibits us from using almost all the rest!
what do we do about it??
holler from mountain tops
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- tom moody 12-18-2002 9:35 pm
i recomand thier cellular service, take your home phone on the road.......
- Skinny 12-18-2002 10:36 pm [add a comment]
Thanks. I do have T-Mobile (formerly Voicestream formerly Omnipoint) to use when my land line breaks down, but I seem to be one of those people who don't take to cell phones well. (A lot of it's being a baby about audibility/connectivity issues.) Bill is the opposite with cell phone use. He picked it right up.
- tom moody 12-18-2002 10:44 pm [add a comment]
had to, owed V $$$ / now using voicestream, ney easyspeak prepaid w/ a Motorola
- bill 12-18-2002 11:01 pm [add a comment]
ive had the phone company here twice in the past two weeks and one other time in the last six weeks. and, stupid me, i figured the last time they were here theyd get the job done right. i even had two crews arrive nearly simultaneously for the same job. well, they fixed one problem but left me with another. i cant make outgoing phone calls, only receive them. so, i have to make another appointment and wait out another day.
- dave 12-18-2002 11:03 pm [add a comment]
A few months back I had the opposite problem: I could make outgoing calls but I had no idea people were calling me. If Bill hadn't knocked on my door I would have just assumed I'd become terribly unpopular, even with the Policeman's Benevolent Fund.
- tom moody 12-18-2002 11:16 pm [add a comment]
I just got my ATT bill. It's got my name on it, but the number and the calls belong to someone else...
- alex 12-19-2002 12:33 am [add a comment]
i hate both companys but we do need them....
- Skinny 12-19-2002 1:52 am [add a comment]
We only need them because our government sold them huge parts of our radio specturm, and the FCC prohibits us from using almost all the rest!
- jim 12-19-2002 2:01 am [add a comment]
what do we do about it??
- Skinny 12-19-2002 5:55 am [add a comment]
holler from mountain tops
- bill 12-19-2002 6:00 am [add a comment]