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Verizon Online DSL

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The Resume

    (circa 2000- )
    Owned by Verizon
    DSL is Digital Subscriber Line
    30-day money-back guarantee
    Comes packaged with free use of MSN - Microsoft Network Premium or Yahoo!
    2006 Prices:
    768/128k speed $14.95 per month (must guarantee a year)
    3m/768k speed $29.96 per month (must guarantee a year)
    3m/768k speed $39.95 per month
    Self-install kit ($19.95)
    Early termination fee of $79

Why Verizon Online DSL might be annoying:

    You must be a Verizon phone customer.
    You must live within 3 miles of a Verizon Central Office.
    It works over copper phone wires and must be plugged into a telephone jack.
    James Earl Jones does their commercials.
    Their print ads do a side by side comparison of other ISPs, in which they neglect categories they would lose in.
    Verizon promised a fiber optic information super highway, but instead gave us the much slower dsl.
    MSN - Microsoft Network Premium will not work on Macs.
    It warns 'Speed and uninterrupted use of the service are not guaranteed.'
    It is quite possible to have one phone line in your house that is eligible for it and another phone line that is not.

Why Verizon Online DSL might not be annoying:

    It allows 9 Email accounts and a 10MB web space.
    They have 24/7 live technical support.
    If you lose DSL service, your telephone is not effected.
    They are among the lowest priced broadband services.
    It allowed you to access MSN - Microsoft Network Premium for free.
    It gives users a wireless gateway, which is a modem and router.
    It allows up to 4 users to access the internet concurrently on the same account.
    When it offered MSN - Microsoft Network to its customers, MSN - Microsoft Network had 7.7 million customers and they had 1.4 million (circa 2002). After offering free MSN - Microsoft Network on Verizon Online DSL, 300,000 new subscribers were added in the first quarter.
    They run more TV commercials than probably all other ISPs combined.
    J.D. Powers ranked them second overall among high speed ISPs (2004).
    Their print ads mention Comcast High Speed Internet and Road Runner.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 52 Votes: 65.38% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 70.97% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 105 Votes: 78.10% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 128 Votes: 71.88% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 36 Votes: 75.00% Annoying