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Blackberry fritz

My berry did me in. I have a black pearl from T-mobile and the earpiece of the phone seems to have broken. I can no longer hear through it when someone calls, though they assure me they can.

Why I hate Verizon

I am not usually one to write gripes about a specific company. I gripe plenty, but I at least keep the names off the record. Forget that with Verizon. I have been SO annoyed by them that they deserve special mention. I moved to DC. I need Internet. I can't get Comcast. So you know what I have as an option? Verizon. That's right. DSL, not FIOS. I order DSL. It takes a fucking week and a half for the "Service Ready Date". That's when they turn on my Internet access. Wow. Okay, so I wait. In the mean-time, I get the damn modem shipped to me. I get that delivered. They already charge me a bunch of shit as they said they would. Fine. You have to pay for these things. To be expected. I finally get to my service ready day. February 15. Today is February 27. I start the installation. I do as the silly animation from the CD shows. Along the way, it gets stuck. So, I call DSL Support. They do a line test. They ask a bunch of basic troubleshooting questions. No luck. He tra