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Internet Service Provider
The Resume
(circa 2000- )
Owned by Verizon
DSL is Digital Subscriber Line
30-day money-back guarantee
Comes packaged with free use of MSN - Microsoft Network Premium or Yahoo!
2006 Prices:
768/128k speed $14.95 per month (must guarantee a year)
3m/768k speed $29.96 per month (must guarantee a year)
3m/768k speed $39.95 per month
Self-install kit ($19.95)
Early termination fee of $79
Why Verizon Online DSL might be annoying
You must be a Verizon phone customer.
You must live within 3 miles of a Verizon Central Office.
It works over copper phone wires and must be plugged into a telephone jack.
James Earl Jones does their commercials.
Their print ads do a side by side comparison of other ISPs, in which they neglect categories they would lose in.
Verizon promised a fiber optic information super highway, but instead gave us the much slower dsl.
MSN - Microsoft Network Premium will not work on Macs.
It warns 'Speed and uninterrupted use of the service are not guaranteed.'
It is quite possible to have one phone line in your house that is eligible for it and another phone line that is not.
Why Verizon Online DSL might not be annoying
It allows 9 Email accounts and a 10MB web space.
They have 24/7 live technical support.
If you lose DSL service, your telephone is not effected.
They are among the lowest priced broadband services.
It allowed you to access MSN - Microsoft Network Premium for free.
It gives users a wireless gateway, which is a modem and router.
It allows up to 4 users to access the internet concurrently on the same account.
When it offered MSN - Microsoft Network to its customers, MSN - Microsoft Network had 7.7 million customers and they had 1.4 million (circa 2002). After offering free MSN - Microsoft Network on Verizon Online DSL, 300,000 new subscribers were added in the first quarter.
They run more TV commercials than probably all other ISPs combined.
J.D. Powers ranked them second overall among high speed ISPs (2004).
Their print ads mention Comcast High Speed Internet and Road Runner.
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Year In Review:
For 2009, as of last week, Out of 17 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 70.97% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 105 Votes: 78.10% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 128 Votes: 71.88% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 36 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
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