Patrick wrote:

> Isn't Comcast the one providing telephone service? Isn't there a PUC 
> (public utility commission) required amount of uptime/QOS on local phone 
> services. If they carry the voice over the data connection, it would 
> have to be up per the legal requirement (something about 911 or other 
> emergency access?)
> 
NO.  they don't do phone service, that is Everest you are thinking of. 
My cable has only been down a couple of days inteh almost 3 years since 
I 've had it.  I think that was in the ice storm last yr. and another 
time because of something I did to add another TV w/ cheap wire and a 
junky filter.  I also had at least one week down time when the service 
switched from @Home to Comcast.net, but my new username and password got 
lost in the mail.

Brian

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