Typically on the 4th of July holiday we head over to Lake Billy Chinook for the long weekend. This year we've decided to stay close to home. Lots of reasons, gas prices for one, plus we just got back from our big trip and kind of just want to hang out here and do stuff. So since we decided to stick around we finally made the decision that all households are in turmoil about these days . . . . complete and utter turmoil! Do we bundle our internet, phone and cable services with Verizon or Comcast? ha! That's right! Yes, after receiving pounds of junk mail for at least the last couple of years or so from both Verizon and Comcast offering specials, deals, breaks, extra services, free stuff, we have chosen . . . . . . . . . drumroll please. . . . . . . . to bundle everything with Verizon. On July 3rd they (the cable guys) come to the house to run the fiber optic line from the phone box that's in one corner of our front yard, to the opposite side of our house. Our frontyard now has more colored spray paint lines on it than a football field, showing them where they need to cut/drill through the flowerbed and under the concrete to make way for the fiber optic cable. They promise they will drill under the concrete and do minimal disturbance of our shrubs/flowers. We have used Verizon for our phone service (local calls only) and our high speed internet. Comcast has been our cable TV provider. After reviewing all the pricing information Verizon seemed to have the best deal for what we want and Verizon FIOS has been highly received as the best quality fiber optic for HDTV viewing. They are also going to throw in an HD/DVR so that's a nice perk. Now finally we will have unlimited long distance, we never had any long distance before (only on our cell phones, yikes spendy!), so that will be better. Hubby is going to be home on installation day, the installers will have to put up with his hovering to see how much of his yard they will be destroying (I mean digging up). I think really he just doesn't trust me at home with the cable guys . . now why is that?? All we can hope for now is that all that junk mail and sales calls will stop . . . but I doubt it.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
It better be worth it . . .
Typically on the 4th of July holiday we head over to Lake Billy Chinook for the long weekend. This year we've decided to stay close to home. Lots of reasons, gas prices for one, plus we just got back from our big trip and kind of just want to hang out here and do stuff. So since we decided to stick around we finally made the decision that all households are in turmoil about these days . . . . complete and utter turmoil! Do we bundle our internet, phone and cable services with Verizon or Comcast? ha! That's right! Yes, after receiving pounds of junk mail for at least the last couple of years or so from both Verizon and Comcast offering specials, deals, breaks, extra services, free stuff, we have chosen . . . . . . . . . drumroll please. . . . . . . . to bundle everything with Verizon. On July 3rd they (the cable guys) come to the house to run the fiber optic line from the phone box that's in one corner of our front yard, to the opposite side of our house. Our frontyard now has more colored spray paint lines on it than a football field, showing them where they need to cut/drill through the flowerbed and under the concrete to make way for the fiber optic cable. They promise they will drill under the concrete and do minimal disturbance of our shrubs/flowers. We have used Verizon for our phone service (local calls only) and our high speed internet. Comcast has been our cable TV provider. After reviewing all the pricing information Verizon seemed to have the best deal for what we want and Verizon FIOS has been highly received as the best quality fiber optic for HDTV viewing. They are also going to throw in an HD/DVR so that's a nice perk. Now finally we will have unlimited long distance, we never had any long distance before (only on our cell phones, yikes spendy!), so that will be better. Hubby is going to be home on installation day, the installers will have to put up with his hovering to see how much of his yard they will be destroying (I mean digging up). I think really he just doesn't trust me at home with the cable guys . . now why is that?? All we can hope for now is that all that junk mail and sales calls will stop . . . but I doubt it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Go with the Dish...screw the monopolies!
Post a Comment