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I live in SC and have Verizon for telephone

Posted By: pc on 2007-12-12
In Reply to: Do any of you have AT&T? - Ticked with internet service

and internet.  We could get Time Warner Cable also but chose Verizon instead.  We have a home phone which is Verizon also.  We do not have a long distance carrier such as AT&T since we use cell phones for long distance.


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