Internet options (Dallas, Fort Worth, Irving: leasing, home, live)

[portorro]

I would like to have internet connection only at my place. I'm never home so it makes no sense to have cable. However, Time Warner (our nice monopoly) wants to get you no matter what. I live by Love Field so smack in the middle of the city.

What are my options to get internet only service at my place? without having to bundle it up with Telephone or cable tv.

Appreciate any guidance!!!

[WillysB]

Speakeasy.com Tell them you want broadband but don't have phone service. They will in turn contract Covad who will lease the existing but not used ATT phone line so Speakeasy can provide the broadband. You can also get VoIP with Speakeasy. You pay about the same you'd pay any other provider for broadband (DSL) in a single monthly payment to Speakeasy.

Speakeasy is HQ'd in SeattleWA. I used them in Dallas for a few years and was satisfied. Their tech support is intelligent, proactive, friendly and helpful.

[Kootr]

You should be able to get [just] Verizon's FiOS Internet service, which by the way is absolutely fantastic.

[pot_roast]

Yes, I second the FIOS. Even the cheapest package is awesome.

[portorro]

Fios is not offered north of Love Field airport

Are these my internet options in the 5th largest city in the USA?? I am very dissapointed.

[Spree]

try charter? Cable TV, High Speed Internet and Telephone Service -- Charter Communications

[WillysB]

Originally Posted by portorro

Fios is not offered north of Love Field airport

Are these my internet options in the 5th largest city in the USA?? I am very dissapointed.

Search Broadband Reports, a widely used forum for all things telephony, internet and other stuff.

For the responders suggesting Verizon's FiOS. Telephone companies such as Verizon and AT&T are what is called an incumbent local exchange carriers - ILECs. In the Dallas area Verizon was formerly known as GTE and AT&T was formerly known as Southwestern Bell, formerly a subsidiary of AT&T, now the owner of same.

As an ILEC, these carriers could/can offer service ONLY in their respective service areas. For Verizon, that would be predominantly to the north Dallas, Irving, Fort Worth and was recognized as the 972 area code. The 214 and 817 area codes were/are Southwestern Bell. Those territories will never cross, unless of course, the now defunct Congress chooses to change telephony regulations. The FCC has ruled that these ILECs do not need to line share in their fiber optic areas. Line share is allowing a DLEC - data local exchange carrier to share the ILEC facility. Covad is a DLEC, leasing the existing facility for data purposes only. Internet service is a data service.

Verizon offers FiOS.
AT&T offers uVerse.

The original OP indicated he did not want to bundle telephone service.