July 5, 2009
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Decisions & Confusion...
As many of you know, before teaching and living abroad I worked in the telephone industry and knew the industry backwards and forwards. It has now been 15 years since I worked in that industry and of that 15 years, I have lived abroad for 13 of those years. I'm moving back to the states and most of my work is going to be dependent on really good internet and telecommunications. Naturally, I have started researching this. My first problem: when I left the country there were only three telephone companies and none of them offered internet. Now--it seems that there are these bundled packages with telephone, internet and cable tv...and the companies that I know have different names... I have learned that US West is now Qwest and GTE is now Verizon. AT&T (my former employer) seems to still be the same, but where is MCI? And is Sprint still a big player or a small player now? Also, which is better cable modem or dsl? I tweeted that question and got the answer that it depends on the neighbors for the cable and the hub for the dsl...what to do? I have also learned that the fastest internet in the treasure valley is 5 mb/s, which is 25 mb/s slower than what I have now. Grrrr.... what do I do? Also, the wireless communication is quite confusing to me as well. If I buy a cell phone with wireless broadband, can I use this with my netbook or laptop--I can't seem to understand. I have unlimited 2 mb/s on my cell phone and can use my laptop for it here and have cable modem with 30 mb/s also unlimited... In the states--it seems that it depends on how much one uses--totally confusing...
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It is a crappy system. The bundles mean that we must pay even more for a simple telephone connection. I really hate it, but what can we do!! We are on Embarq and there are days when we cannot get our mail ! Can't even connect to the internet.
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