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Alternative Internet Service Providers

By Dr. Maurice Leatherbury, Executive Director of Information Technology and Academic Computing

As was previously announced, UNT will cease providing dialup Internet service effective August 31, 2003. We've asked various Internet Service Providers to give us information and any special "deals" for our users who will be looking for alternative providers, and although we were disappointed at the small number of respondents to our request for information, we did garner some interest. The list of respondents as well as quite a bit of additional information about alternatives can be found at the Help Desk Web site:

http://www.unt.edu/helpdesk/faq/Dialup_Going_Away/no_dialup_some_alternatives.htm

You'll see there that Verizon, the local telephone provider, didn't respond to our RFI but you can check on availability and pricing of Digital Subscriber Lines at Verizon's Web site:

http://www22.verizon.com/ForHomeDSL/channels/dsl/forhomedsl.asp

If we do receive any additional information from Verizon, we'll post it on the Helpdesk site.