For anyone who hates Cox cable... (company, place, cheaper)

[AZ bound]

Originally Posted by desertskies

Would Qwest would lose the DirecTV franchise on their bundled services?

Probably not, it's all done with a contract

Originally Posted by hoptoit987

Has no competition?

Dish Network blows it away.

I agree.
I've been with dish for about14 years, and have only had 1 problem that was resolved.
And now Dish offers Qwest titanium hi-speed (12mbps), for $40 dollars a month. That's cheaper than what Qwest is offering it through themselves. When my hi-speed contract is complete in August, I will dump Qwest, and get a faster Qwest through Dish, unless they match.

[StaggerLee22]

Originally Posted by pr0zac

I feel really weird saying it, but "I love Cox"...

Me too.
No problems so far for me in Nevada.

[randian]

Florida has a cable competition model Arizona should consider using. You have both Bright House and Verizon FIOS competing in Tampa (and I believe Orlando), for example. Unfortunately FIOS will never come to Maricopa County since it wasn't a GTE market. Cox's HDTV offering is pretty good, though, better than Comcast's I think.

[udoshia]

qwest is DSL did you hear they were going broadband?
if they are WOOHOO
But seems if they were they would have by now
a friend tested my speed on broadband and then we went to his house and tested his Qwest DSL and they were the same speed. Although....I just replaced a sun damaged cable and my PC flies now

[LBTRS]

Originally Posted by udoshia

qwest is DSL did you hear they were going broadband?
if they are WOOHOO
But seems if they were they would have by now
a friend tested my speed on broadband and then we went to his house and tested his Qwest DSL and they were the same speed. Although....I just replaced a sun damaged cable and my PC flies now

You're bringing back threads that are years old. Century Link has already acquired Qwest and they offer DSL. This old thread was speculation prior to the acquisition taking place.

[Cida]

Funny to see my old post surfacing again.

As it happens, I've been in a fight with Qwest/Century Link for the better part of the year about my telephone, with absolutely everyone dropping the ball at every level - billing, customer service, repair desk, field technicians.

So much for my hopes that it would be a competent company.

[tripper76]

I think Centurylink turned to garbage when it went from Qwest to Centurylink. When the Centurylink website itself is either down or full of errors almost every time I try to pay my bill or look something up, you know there's a problem.

I think I will be switching back to Cox in a month or two.

[observer53]

My experience with Century Link has been entirely good, on one occasion extraordinarily so. Haven't ever been with Cox for phone, been a long time for TV. None of this means I wouldn't SNC haven't considered switching.

[jimj]

We had CenturyTel for about 2 years where we last lived until Broadband became readily available then we switched as fast as we could. CenturyTel (there) was absolutely bar none the worst you could get. Yes it was cheaper and good only if you liked being kicked off your connection regularly,reverting to dialup speeds or worse several times a week and outages that lasted way too long and horrid customer service.

I wouldn't expect any better here unfortunately.

[imartin26]

I think they both have their issues, I had Cox for the last 12 years but this last move I had from Mesa to Scottsdale put me over the top. I cancelled all of my service through them and went to Directv for TV and CenturyLink for phone and internet. So far so good but I am sure that I will find my far share of issues with them as well.