I’m in the later stages of moving my operation 4 blocks away to the new silverorange/Reinvented mediaplex on Fitzroy Street. One thing I have to do is move my business telephone line.
If I switch to Eastlink as part of making the move, my monthly phone bill, for identical Centrex service, will go from $44.70 to $32.50. And Eastlink won’t charge me anything for installation.
If I stick with Aliant, they will charge me $110 for the move, plus $35 to install a phone jack.
Over a year, then, sticking with Aliant would cost me an additional $291.
Is there any compelling reason for not doing this?
One cautionary note: when I switched from Aliant to Eastlink, my costs went down as well. All was happy, until that fateful day ... you know the day, when children up and down the street cry out in joy "The new telephone books are here! The new telephone books are here!" I got the new telephone book, and, as we all do, flipped to the "L"s (your letter may vary) ... and there I was ... not there.
A call to Aliant produced this heartfelt response: "Ooops. That happened to a lot of people who switched. Something about the computers. Sorry."
Luckily, I have a manager and don't need to field business calls very often. But if they matter to you, stay on top of that little detail ...
POSTED DEC 5, 2003 AT 20:40 AST BY Nils Ling (Nilbo99@hotmail.com)
...so just give in to the monopoly...or let them rot...
POSTED DEC 6, 2003 AT 00:04 AST BY Alan
