[Tfug] DakotaCom and Gain Merger

[bigj at flatwan.net]

AzStarnet only sold their 9800 dialup customers to Earthlink. They kept
their DSL customers for about another 2 years when DakotaCom purchased
them and we migrated them all over. The rest is history :)


--
Jon


> t takahashi wrote:
>
>> not to be too skeptical, but do you own stock or options?
>
> Just my .02 with Simply Bits.
>
> I started with Azstarnet in 1995.  Then they sold out to Mindspring.  I
> wanted DSL but Qwest couldn't do it as I was 18,000 feet from the CO.
>
> I kept checking and one day stumbled onto bblabs.  They said I qualified
> for DSL at the the then current 768K speed so I had them installed and
> dropped Mindspring.
>
> I'm assuming that's when Qwest installed their DSLAM about a mile up the
> road from me.
>
> Two weeks later, Mindspring sent me an e-mail saying I qualified for
> their 256K DSL!
>
> Later Qwest and bblabs upgraded to the 1.5 mb DSL so that's what I have
> now.
>
> Other than a few times where I've had to reboot the DSL router, the only
> outages I've had was one caused when Simplybits did an upgrade and my
> account got hosed.  Steve fixed it right away.  The other was recently
> when Qwest had my pair split with another subscriber.
>
> Other than that, I've had very respectable service.
>
> No, I don't have stock in either Qwest or Simplybits.  ;-)
>
> George Cohn
>
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