Opinions about Windstream telephone service.
By nighthawk • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Opinions and EditorialsAnyone else dissatisfied with the Quality, Service and Price of Windstream, or is everything running smoothly and just fine?
Should the citizens take up a petition and ask Fiscal Court to step in and demand better service and lower prices, and if so, would you be willing to sign it, or would you refuse, and why?
March 4th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Might as well take this one down nh?
Everyone willing to talk on the street, but no one brave enough to voice it over the windstream routers.
For starters no DSL in areas that need it.
Overpriced.
Phone service outages on Jones Ridge & Clack Mountain just about every time it rains.
I’d sign that petition if it were in circulation. But I don’t think anyone is going to voice their complaints on here.
It’s like that post you made changing the last verse of the Star Spangled Banner.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
If you have a router in your house to the young en downloading movies WHATCHOUT!
FCC considers regulating limits on Web use
Comcast,(I’ll bet windstream and Timewarner!) one of the nation’s largest cable companies, has been the subject of a complaint after it acknowledged that it slowed down some Internet traffic of BitTorrent, a file-sharing service, because of heavy use of video-sharing applications.
Consumer groups have said that such discrimination against some content providers has been aimed at Comcast’s rivals and is both unnecessary and threatens to undermine the freewheeling nature of the Internet.
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/fcc_considers_regulating_limits_0303/
March 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
(well it haint juz windstream eh Clif Rober-son)
“WE ALREADY PAID FOR THEM TO BUILD IT ALL and they’re just screwing us over AGAIN. None of this is new information, but maybe spreading the news out to more people would help” ;
Telcos were allowed EXTREME markup and margin on services that cost pennies or fractions of a pennie to deliver after deregulation by a heavily lobbied congress on the premise the exorbitant profits (likely thousands of billions) would be used to wire up the country with the stupor- -info-highway fiberoptics to the homes & buisnesses.
Do you have your brave neu werld two-way telescreen matrix interface with headband wireless controller?
No?
(I don’t want it either but a nearly free phone and highspeed net and TV/video IPTV connection for nearly free would be nice since we the taxpayer/phone customers have essentially paid to build out such networks several times over!!!
Hopefully no one will get the attitude that guy in that colorado town where his decades old auto businesses was rezoned so he built a armored bulldozer and went to town on the businesses and home of council members that had done him in?
‘member that one?
http://www.convergedigest.com/bp-ttp/bp1.asp?ID=273&ctgy=Services
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/29373
pleanty of “Bitter Bell Critic”s out there use those search engines!
March 5th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
The ammount of rage alot of pholks have might be indexed by the level of selective ignorance they practice or are experienced with by being shroommed, that is ; kept in the dark and fed on s@*# !(like a mushroom in the mushroom mines eh?)
March 5th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Fine Line between bravery and stupidity, Thats ye ole sayin’ riegk?
I myself don’t see why anyone should put up with hum and static in their analog phone and a dialup connection slower than 52kbs but I have seen multiple locations where the same or different dial up services vary between 28.8kbs and less than 42kbs on the same laptop & or desktop with various modems internal and external. Compression throttling due to noise in the line probably varies the speeds considerably lower at times.
In short when is our big rebate check comming in from the class action law suit? Aint they no starvin lawyers out there to do a national class action all to do the deep pockets pocket pool on the mega telco’s vast surplusses; what would that wreck all the government pension funds in bed with their stocks???
March 6th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
My first post- so Hello! I do think something needs to be done about the phone service. It’s hard to have a conversation whne you get cut off after 10 moinutes or an hour; and it’s not just long distance it’s local calls too! We pay way too much for this crappy service.
Thanks!
March 6th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I ‘member years ago listening to ball game on the radio the color guys had to hang up and redial because the phone company would cut off a call after 3hours when they were on remote somewhere; now they add towers to stay ahead of running out of channels because of the free nights and weekends (there is one “temporary tower” that has been leaning over where people walk and park for FIVE YEARS PLUS !!! I noticed the other day it had a pretty good bend in it, hopefully IF it falls it will be during a midnight wind or ICE storm (like on fri/sat) when no one is parked or walking near it. Never mind the microwave emmissions from the ~850-950Mhz band of hundreds of channels at ~.5watts each; feel your spermies curling up yet guys??
March 6th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I think the phone services is terrible to I think we all should work together
to get rid of the current phone company and work on getting another phone company here for us to have great phone services .
I can remember when people had party lines where they can pick up the phone and listen to other people talk .
March 6th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Welcome Clearfield Cat! Always happy to have more on board!
March 8th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Don’t take this thread wrong, I’m not criticizing the local servicemen/repairmen. If we get a new phone company, they should keep their jobs.
I’m just suggesting that we inform Fiscal Court that we are dissatisfied with Windstream, and ask them to tell them to “Shape up or ship out!”.
I don’t have any issues with the local people that work for them, and there’s no reason (I can think of) that a new franchise agreement can’t contain a clause that would require the new telco to keep our local servicemen employed.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Has anyone else noticed a improvement in their dialup speeds?? Wuder if the squeeky wheels on hyre got us some grease fer that one?
March 25th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Suprise Clinton is “delayed” may be late to Morehead, origally 5:45pm for ~1hour rally;
March 25th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Someone else said he would only be here 20min. and likely not til 7pm? Whoknozzzz?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Has anyone had trouble with WINDSTREAM trying to charge you to repair the Drop Line to your home or business?
The “Drop Line” is the telephone line that runs from the pole to your outside service box.
I was always under the impression that the Drop Line was the telco’s responsibility, but people have been claiming lately that WINDSTREAM has been informing them that they will charge ~45.00 Service Call Fee and ~30.00/hr.
*This information is based upon what I have been told by numerous people. The most current information was told to me by an elderly couple who lives in Clearfield and without telephone service because they told WINDSTREAM that they wasn’t paying them to work on the line running to the house, so not to bother with showing up.
This should be something for WINDSTREAM to really be ashamed of seeing as the couple has had telephone service ever since GTE franchised into this area, and prior to GTE’s local franchise as well.
Well so much for “We care about our customers…” blah, blah, blah…!
After talking to this elderly couple who have had local phone service for almost seven decades, it seems that WINDSTREAM only cares about the money.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Pushing the wire service plan charges? I thought those only covered the internal wiring but? The Rural Co-ops may have horded back massive surplusses but perhaps it would be better to go “back” to that in Rowan Co.?
April 25th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
It has been my experience that they DO push the inside wiring plan, but having the ability to do my own internal wiring and maintenance thereupon, I have never opted-in, nor had the need to.
I find it not so funny that when the serviceman shows up, that they always want to check the inside wiring, claiming the trouble is inside, but after I demand they disconnect the structure’s wiring from the outside service box, they always end up doing work up on the pole, or at the remote switching location.
I have to wonder how many people don’t have the knowledge and/or ability to check and service their inside lines, thus getting slapped with an unnecessary fee, and still having phone trouble.
The last time I had any outage, the serviceman insisted that the trouble was inside the house until I told him to check the ceramic fuse in the outside service box. And sure enough… that was the problem.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Opinions about the phone service: WELL THEY ALL SUCK BECAUSE:
they are in bed with the NSA NRO MOSSAAD FBI and big brudder in general
I have griped and put in complaints and still today I picked up a phone and
they must have the bug software needing debugged again. This
is at least the 4th time I have picked up the phone to find no dial tone and
the audio from someone’s phone/ cell or deskphone coming though the line.
The 1st time this happened I heard children playing and women talking in the
distance accross a room and I thought, o.k some younen’ playing with the phone
has dialed the number by mistake and I just picked up before it rang.
(on 2 occasions the phone rang for over 20times and kept on ringing even
with me "indisposed" and not able to get to it. If you have ever rang a phone
long enough you have had the computer kick in with "your party is not answering
please hang up and try your call again later" or words to that effect.
When this persistant ringing has occurred on at least 2 occassions I have picked up this particular phone and BINGO some mic on a phone is HOT.
The 3 time this happend I heard heavy breathing and a vaccumn running
like someone was doing janitorial work and then clink the tell tell signs of a
toilet seat being let down, then… yep the moans of someone going to the john.
With most of these instances it can last up to 45min. or more tying up the line as far as I know, preventing me from getting calls? The first time it happened after over 10 minutes the phone rang real loud and then foot steps and the beep of the "talk" button was heard at the same time as "hel–" as the woman answered her desk phone.
I hit me this was no regular glitch but a hot mic on a phone no doubt
a bandwidth overload with the eschelon system
http://mondediplo.com/1999/01/04echelon
if they don’t come get me part II:
August 18th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Anyway today I was fed up and I had several people listen in to this
so I have witnesses and I recorded a short tape of it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=echelon+FBI+microphone+cell&start=20&sa=N
August 18th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Later after I talked to several people about this (and some listened in to the
conversation) I called a media contact to try to get a report done on it,
fat chance, no matter how many other media reports have been done on this;
Anyway if you know how phones are supposed to work you have been told this
is not supposed to be possible and I cornered two phone guys and asked
"innocently" how this could be happening, they paused and feined ignorance,"
uh, well, uh,,, what do you think (joe) could it be a "hot cross" or a [techno gibberish]
we don’t know, you might wanna call the customer service line…"
I did of course they found no problem. I will have to somehow catch this
happeining and kidnap a technician for them to believe me I guess, I did get several witnesses today and a short tape where you can hear this guy whistle as he worked at what sounded like a construction site. The fellow must have had a "blue tooth" as it sounded like he was whistleing in the mic but talking to co workers and rustling around. HE did not call me and the call cut off like the others when he recieved a call it sounded like. End of Rant part 3
August 19th, 2008 at 7:43 am
all phone mics are hot all the time
it is big brudder duh? Doing the nasty at home
with the spouse and don’t want your special techniques
heard over the phone to Fort Mead or Langley et cetera
well take the battery out of the cordless or cell or take the
hand set cord loose from the thing and leave it on the
hook and the answering mach. will still work in the other room.
Of course if "They" know you know this and want your privacy
maybe they will put in a more specific bug since you cant’
be a patriot these daze and expect privacy when you take
a dump or do the wife $#@%*@$#@~ !!! this country has
been lie for my whole life so why should I believe even that
man wen to the moon the way they "show"ed we did anyway.
Everyone’s outrage is modulated with ignor-ance and drugs.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
That "Moon Walk" does look like it was done on a sound stage.
Handset mics could be wired to stay hot back in the early ’70s or before.
A tone generator would keep the phone from ringing when dialed.
(the partyline ringer filters could have been copied from one of these)
I have heard what they call "cross talk" but its not during wet days like
the linemen have been trained… I heard it occur in the bone dry conditions of drought.
Souper acronym guys but generally only detectives used to get arrested for using those
devices without a warrant (to obtain information that would eventually lead to obtaining one).
But now a days the evidence obtained generally gets "thrown out of court", but when it
gets thrown out, THE JURY HAS ALREADY HEARD IT most of the time.
"Jury is instructed to forget that Mr. Clean said he wanted to kill Aunt Jamimi…" etc…
How they going to forget that? New jury please? but its been reported to the public already!
ILL(but)LEGAL… Everything they do is legal because they are in the legal profession.
Doesn’t mean it’s lawful. But it can be said or claimed to be legal. Still Un-Lawful.
How does one explain to the wife that the cordless phone is nothing more then a walkie-talkie
in multiplex mode? Have you ever tried to explain this to people? don’t they give funny looks?
Has mostly everyone else been unknowingly chipped? or programmed somehow?
Is other people afraid to discuss these things (at-least openly)?
August 19th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
It is best to assume that somebody IS listening to everything you say or watching
everything you do, even reading everything you write, and "group-brainstorming" to dispel
or discredit everything you try and warn folks about.
But even back in the old switchboard days we had the party-lines or if we were talking
from 2 phone to phone (single phone) pairs the operator could have been listening.
We should and have the right to expect more secure lines from the phone company
in modern times. And by "secure lines" I do mean "privacy".
August 19th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
So I suppose the comment is going to come up that we are paranoid?
Expecting our (all of us as a whole) Constitutional Rights (at least) to be upheld
and defended (not even naming natural rights) Is Not Being Paranoid.
Just like an exorcise of the Fifth doesn’t mean that you have done anything wrong.
But I wonder if it isn’t too late to try and point these simple truths out to people.
We are supposed to have the governing power over a limited government,
NOT be the subjects of an unlimited government.