Tikkabik

So I just got off the phone with Verizon, and am very happy. I called to clear up a billing problem, but while I was on the phone the rep mentioned to me that my package with them gave me a modest ($5) discount on DSL service, which knocked the price down to about $20 less than what I've been paying *spit* Comcast all this time.

As near as I can tell, there's no way to lose on this deal -- I get the modem for free, as long as I keep it for a year; there's no contract; if I bug out and have to cancel the service, they pay for return shipping and packaging for the modem; and I get 30 days to try out the service before I'm billed, and I can cancel at any time in that stretch and not be charged a penny.

So let's see: No risk to me to try it out; works faster than the cable modem since there's no shared bandwidth with my porn-and-warez-downloading neighbors. Hm. Looks like Verizon's just trying really, really hard to take revenue away from Comcast, and given that Comcast isn't trying really, really hard to keep it, who am I to argue?

So I'm going to give it a shot; they tell me I should be up and running with DSL by the 14th. They don't need to send anyone out to the house to do anything, but I guess they do need to program a remote terminal someplace between here and the central office, and that's gonna take about a week and a half. So I'll let you know how things go once I'm set.