Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:52:27 -0500
From: Carol Phillips <>
Subject: Re: CenturyLink and my 2 cents
When I worked with data communications, way back when POT (plain old telephone) was the only answer, I had to trace the data to the POT to prove the difficulty we were having was not ours. Then the phone tech would come in, say everything was fine with line too, and then disappear to call his (they were all ‘hims’) supervisor. Walla, the data started flowing again with the phone guy as clueless as we were are what fixed the problem. Yeah, right. With your own modem/router, you can probably expect the same with CenturyLink.
And, about Dixie cups — I was in Cuba recently, and that is pretty much how people communicate data with their friends. They hard wire their computers to one another. And, I’m sorry I don’t have the details. Our guide wasn’t that tech literate. Either that, or as a government employee, she couldn’t say. We did run into that. There was also a flourishing black market for data on the Internet. Every week people with access download a 100GB of music, movies, TV shows, news etc to hard drives and then the data. People can buy just what they want, and the data is cheaper as the week ends. E.g. A music video I want will cost more on the first day it is available than six days later. The government ignores this, either because it is so widespread, because they don’t care, or because of some other reason.
I occurs to me that as much as we hate CenturyLink, at least we have an internet connection in our homes. And for that I am grateful.
carol