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Any of you remember the commercial that ran all the time several years ago that started with some sketchy guy walks into the lobby of a seedy hotel, and a bored desk clerk is reading, and the guy keeps asking for stuff that seedy hotels clearly don't have, and she says no, and so on, until he says "Got any movies?" and she says "We have every movie ever made in every language anytime, day or night." And he looks all confused, and says "How is that possible?" and looks curiously off to the right, and the commercial fades out to...
Qwest
So...
What the heck was that? What is "Qwest" and what did it have to do with seedy hotels having ridiculous features related to cinema?
ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
edited December 2007
Qwest is or was one of the largest communication companies in the country (like SBC) and I know they were getting investigated for some Enron-esque scandal. Don't remember what happened with that.
How have you never heard of Qwest before? They used to be US West, one of the Baby Bell telecom companies, and they changed their name a few years ago to, I don't know, be more "hip"
they provide Internet service, DSL, cable, phone service, stuff like that
My choices for high speed internet are Qwest or Comcast.
Both options suck ass.
Agreed
Although not as high speed, have you considered Clearwire? Their rates are much more reasonable in my opinion but you also won't get the throughput you do with Comcast (and presumably Quest as well).
Yeah, no thanks. I do value some form of physical security, in addition to being a bandwidth whore (which is why I went with QWEST instead of Comcast, since Comcast has been known to choke the throughput of high volume users).
You know what pisses me off? That they divided Seattle into a Qwest zone and a Verizon zone. If you live in one area you get Verizon, if you live in the other you get Qwest.
You get absolutely no say in the matter. It's total bullshit.
ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
edited December 2007
You know, AT&T DSL really isn't all that bad. I think I pay $35 a month for 3.0Mbps and like another 5 for the cheapest available local phone service on top of that.
shit has got to be better than fucking money grubbing comcast.
Not from my experience.
When I moved over to the Seattle area, we had a choice between the two and we decided Qwest.
Long story short, we had to give them our information 3 different times because they kept saying that they had no record of signing up ever, each time. Then, we never got service at all. Then we got a bill for the service that we never got for the account number that they said never existed. I called them and told them to reverse the bill, and we only got a credit back for part of the bill. I finally got them to reverse the entire charge.
Needless to say, we don't have Qwest in our apartment at all.
In May 2006, USA Today reported that millions of telephone calling records had been handed over to the United States National Security Agency by AT&T Corp., Verizon, and BellSouth since September 11, 2001. This data has been used to create a database of all international and domestic calls. Qwest was allegedly the lone holdout, despite threats from the NSA that their refusal to cooperate may jeopardize future government contracts [4], a decision which has earned them praise from those who oppose the NSA program [5].
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they own a tall building in Denver
did you mean Quest
There was such good conversation going on
they provide Internet service, DSL, cable, phone service, stuff like that
The amount of calls we'd get from non-native english speakers was astounding.
Apparently, the sales reps did not think it necessary to get a person's permission before switching their phone service.
I don't know how it's been since I left there, but it was one of the shadiest places I've ever worked at.
e: google 'qwest slamming'.
Both options suck ass.
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Although not as high speed, have you considered Clearwire? Their rates are much more reasonable in my opinion but you also won't get the throughput you do with Comcast (and presumably Quest as well).
Yeah, no thanks. I do value some form of physical security, in addition to being a bandwidth whore (which is why I went with QWEST instead of Comcast, since Comcast has been known to choke the throughput of high volume users).
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You know what pisses me off? That they divided Seattle into a Qwest zone and a Verizon zone. If you live in one area you get Verizon, if you live in the other you get Qwest.
You get absolutely no say in the matter. It's total bullshit.
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I feel your pain, oh fellow sufferer of Comcast.
This is an okay blog, kind of angry, but still fun to read.
http://comcastmustdie.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
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Not from my experience.
When I moved over to the Seattle area, we had a choice between the two and we decided Qwest.
Long story short, we had to give them our information 3 different times because they kept saying that they had no record of signing up ever, each time. Then, we never got service at all. Then we got a bill for the service that we never got for the account number that they said never existed. I called them and told them to reverse the bill, and we only got a credit back for part of the bill. I finally got them to reverse the entire charge.
Needless to say, we don't have Qwest in our apartment at all.
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
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Yeah I think mine is dying but you can get replacements on eBay and save a lot of money.
Mine just went "hey I am gonna burn out now and smell like ass. Enjoy!"
Paku did you ever want to climb up the typewriter building?
Speakeasy.
They don't offer TV service, but I never had a single issue with their service, and at the time, they were the only ISP offering 6mb DSL at the time.
Aye, if you ever been to Denver... you know the skyline reads like this:
___.____QWEST__|^|____
only every single time i see it