Subj : Testing 1 2 3
To   : Bob Ackley
From : Richard Webb
Date : Thu Feb 21 2008 02:37 pm

Bob Ackley wrote in a message to Allen Prunty:

 AP> Bob... I have unlimited long distance... Once I get my POPs line
 AP> reinstalled I will gladly call and deliver if it would save you some
 AP> $$

I have that here as well, one thing I like about Bellsouth over Qwest.  YEs I 
had their service when I was an Iowan as well. WIll be glad when Allen gets his 
pots working again <g>.  WIll be able to crash netmail him.

BA> No thanks.  I'm quite happy with the feed I get from Jeff Smith.  I
BA> am *not* happy with Qwest, but I can't do anything about that,
BA> they're the only game around - by law, the company in Emerson can't
BA> extend their lines the mile or so from the boundary to my house. 
BA> Qwest has nearly all of the rural phones in Iowa and Nebraska - and
BA> probably west of the Mississippi and north of Oklahoma.  My house is
BA> quite literally at the end of the phone cable, the other end of it
BA> is at Qwest's automated switch (there's no office there, just
BA> a little building with the switch in it) in Malvern, IA, about 12
BA> miles away. 

KNow that feeling.  Even if you get into one of the other phone companies, such 
as McLeod in eastern Iowa the lines are still maintained by qwest.

Regards,
           Richard
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