Can anyone reach istop?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 29 18:43:38 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:04:51PM -0400, Taavi Burns wrote:
> On 6/29/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hey neat, they offer Dry DSL (service on an inactive phone line).  It
> > costs more ($17/month + DSL service cost it appears for around here),
> > but at least it is an option for people who want to go VoIP and not use
> > rogers while canceling regular phone service.
> 
> Rogers allows cablemodems for customers who do not order cable TV
> service.  Historically they charged a $10/month fee for this, which
> they informed me (via snail mail) will no longer be the case (i.e.
> $0/month).

Sure, but some of us would rather not use rogers if we had a choice, and
would prefer something that permits servers and static IPs.  It's wasn't
a matter of having to pay the $10/month to get rogers without cabletv,
it was a matter of having choices without using either bell or rogers at
all.

> One must suspect that the CRTC has given them no choice...  :)

Quite likely.

Lennart Sorensen
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