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Re:Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbyin... by jrockway on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:40PM (#4689996)
That's the default, but the telco will happily sell you a non-Internet wire that you can connect to the Internet yourself. (Or rather, pay some other company to do. Speakeasy used to work this way: they were the ISP and the telco owned the copper.)
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Re:Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbyin... by pdonis on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @07:36PM (#4690913)
I guess I should have qualified my statement: yes, technically it doesn't apply if you can live with dialup or DSL. Of course, if that's the case you don't use the Internet for very much anyway.

(I see from the website of Megapath, which is what Speakeasy seems to have morphed into, that they do actually provide broadband, but it looks like "small business" broadband--i.e., priced too high for a home user. Their offerings at home user prices are basically DSL.)

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