On Monday 13 February 2006 05:47 pm, Technomage kindly wrote: > > Any pertinent comments, suggestions, personal experiences, etc. would be > > appreciated. > > > > -mj- > > MJ > IMHO, avoid QWEST like the black plague. > I used to have DSL with them, but they never had my billing correct (3 > years worth of over charges) Qwest's billing errors are terrible and persistant, whether at work or at home. Month after month they are a nightmare. If you go with Qwest for phone service, make sure you get a PICC freeze on your long-distance carrier, because Qwest will allow you to get slammed. Make sure you get the _correct_ PICC for your carrier. At work, Qwest assigned the wrong PICC to our LD carrier for 9 branch offices; it was a PICC that didn't belong to any carrier. Because we then had no assigned carrier, Sprint picked up the calls at $5 per MINUTE. Qwest charged us $5 per line to switch back to our carrier, but again assigned the wrong PICC to it, and the next month the bills again showed Sprint at $5 per minute. Each month, they billed us $5 per line for switching to Sprint, even though we never authorized the switch, and then billed us to switch back (28 lines x $10 per month switching fees). They said all of our employees must have been using a 1010 dialaround and deliberately choosing Sprint at $5 per minute! Each month I contested the switching charges and long distance bills and they credited the charges, then charged them again for the next month and we got to go through it all over again for all 28 lines. It took Qwest 6 months to figure out that the problem was the wrong PICC that they had given us. By that time we had gone over to Eschelon and refused to pay the final Qwest bills, which still had errors on them. Three years later, Qwest is still hiring collections agencies to hassle the company for the unpaid bills. And Eschelon is just as bad with billing errors, too. You can't win :- At home I got Qwest DSL last October. Every bill has been egregiously inaccurate until this last, most recent bill. Siri Amrit -- Tigerflag Natural Perfumery, LLC www.tigerflag.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss