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Old 04-08-2014, 02:30 PM
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We live on the Historic Side of TV. We currently use Comcast for our Internet service and DirecTV for television. My husband and I both have cell phones with Straight Talk service. About one week ago, I stood in line at the CenturyLink office on 441 to talk to them about changing my service from Comcast. We talked to three people in line with us who were doing the exact same thing. They were fed up with Comcast. I was ready to pull the trigger and send Comcast packing and was actually a little excited to finally be taking action instead of complaining about them.

When I talked to a representative, he said although CenturyLink does service my area, the bandwidth was used up and they were allowed to take on any new customers in the Historic Side at this time. I half-jokingly asked him if someone died or cancelled would they notify me and he said to keep coming back and asking that it might change or something will open up. Other than CenturyLink or using one of the hotspots for Internet, sadly; I know of no other options.