provisioning (was: endless pissing about vz and netflux)

I recall phoning AT&T once asking for 100m service at a commercial address and it took a swat-team of people on the phone to tell me they would be 4x/mo what I was paying.. I politely told them they were too expensive and to not schedule a 8 person conference call for a basic service level.

i remember calling a very large telco to order a ds3 (yes, it was a while ago). they transferred me to engineering to see if they had capacity. engineering told me to hang on, and then i heard a lot of rustling of paper. i knew that even if i could get the circuit i would not want it. randy