Verizon seems a lot less evil than when they were Bell Atlantic[*], but they still kinda rub me the wrong way. They pissed me off enough to decide to switch, but if I had to do it again I would not go with Talk America. Close Call looks good on paper but I have no actual experience with them.
Having a landline, such a commonplace thing and nowadays with competition-of-sorts, really should not be the least bit annoying...
...but it is. :-( I'd dreamed of being rid of The Phone Company[**] a long time ago; now at long last, I am. Now if only I could go full solar and get away from BGE as well.
[*]When they came up with the name "Verizon", I saw it in print many times over the course of about two weeks before I ever heard it on the radio. I kept reading it as "vehr'-i-ZOHN" instead of "vər'-EYE-zən". I couldn't figure out why they'd picked a Spanish name.
[**]Even getting a different provider left me at the mercy of Verizon's repair crews and scheduling, of course, because it's their copper.
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Verizon seems a lot less evil than when they were Bell Atlantic[*], but they still kinda rub me the wrong way. They pissed me off enough to decide to switch, but if I had to do it again I would not go with Talk America. Close Call looks good on paper but I have no actual experience with them.
Having a landline, such a commonplace thing and nowadays with competition-of-sorts, really should not be the least bit annoying...
...but it is. :-( I'd dreamed of being rid of The Phone Company[**] a long time ago; now at long last, I am. Now if only I could go full solar and get away from BGE as well.
[*]When they came up with the name "Verizon", I saw it in print many times over the course of about two weeks before I ever heard it on the radio. I kept reading it as "vehr'-i-ZOHN" instead of "vər'-EYE-zən". I couldn't figure out why they'd picked a Spanish name.
[**]Even getting a different provider left me at the mercy of Verizon's repair crews and scheduling, of course, because it's their copper.