[CLUE-Tech] Qwest DSL Pricing Change

[Frank Whiteley]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nate Duehr" <nate at natetech.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 03:07
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Qwest DSL Pricing Change


> On Feb 19, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Frank Whiteley wrote:
> >
> >> For those using MSN, there's a $3/month change in the service level
> >> for
> >> the ISP service.
> >>
> > Not so fast, Nate.  Qwest/MSN was $29.99/month with free modem.  Now
> > it's
>
> You somehow missed that I was describing an upgrade to existing 640K
> service, not a new service order, and I was talking about higher
> bandwidth than 256K.  You cut and pasted new service at 256K rates in
> reply???
>
> The key thing I'm trying to communicate is:
> If you have 640K service from Qwest on DSL right now, you can call and
> upgrade to 1.5Mb/s for FREE.
>
> If you use MSN for your ISP, it'll cost $3/month more, if you use
> another ISP (like FRII) there was no additional charge.  (I did it and
> I'm on FRII, a friend did it and he's on MSN for the ISP portion of the
> service -- my final bill remains the same as my 640K service, his will
> be $3/month higher -- grand total.)
>
> In other words, Qwest's pricing change makes 640K or 1.5M the same
> price.  Might as well go up to 1.5M.
>
> > Hope they crank up the stingers to 1.5M
>
> Crank it up... more bandwidth!  Ludicrous speed!   Go!!!
>
> ;-)
>
I was just posting about the MSN pricing, which didn't actually change
(though it appeared to).

BTW, just called Qwest for 1.5mbps (vpi/vci change) upgrade'^)  Takes 5
working days, also if done by 2/27 they waive the $9.99 upgrade charge for
DSL Deluxe customers.

Frank