Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:25:23 -0600 From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) Subject: Re: Are there still a lot of DSL services? Newsgroups: comp.dcom.xdsl References: User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/4.1.3-200.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:25:24 -0600 Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.103.224.66 X-Trace: sv3-E4IBjD7CWFyTycrthlJKJNBDlobttcIqT3K2tHkosCvd3/BTDOkxK7feCR0+Tl16TsCPPir51RkFvxV!zgK9d7mLd8tGn7UVRE8ipfSkDuOdy7G+3dk+UM9ivu39z9vJ7th/M8PxDGgW2jFpRrmvEvScwI9B!Qt6xXZpUkM1lCGst+Lqt+rS2CFZctyI= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2162 X-Received-Bytes: 2274 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2162926212 Xref: csiph.com comp.dcom.xdsl:137 Doug McIntyre wrote: > ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) writes: > >It seems like less these days since phone companies don't want them > >anymore like in my areas. :/ > You have to define for what area of the world. I assume the US? Yeah, sorry. USA. :) > The telco's have pretty much shut down almost all 3rd party ISPs > DSL services due to many reasons and factors. Most of them can be > traced back to the Brand X supreme court decision or that telco's > don't play fair. > Steeling customers, providing next to unsuable ULE's to any CLEC. > No longer reselling shared line access, etc. etc. :( -- Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings/:) Holidays & May The Force Be With U! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.