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It amazes me how we called Ma Bell on thursday afternoon and by friday afternoon everything we ask for was in and perfectly functional.
It's even more depressing that your ILEC broke the letter and spirit of half a dozen laws and contracts by delivering their own dialtone substantially faster than they provide service to a competitor. I am always happy and surprised when I can get a copper loop in three days without having it go to some other address, have foreign voltage coming in, or forgetting the jumpers.