I’ve had want amounted to free DSL for the past six months. That’s right, my previous DSL provider hasn’t charged me since August 2004. Around the beginning of April 2005, the service started to seriously degrade, so I started looking for alternatives. On April 4, I decided to switch our service to a national DSL provider. Coincidentally, SBC started pulling the plug on the DSL provider which so kindly gave almost six months of free service that week. Fortunately, we were without broadband access for only about 6 days.
It turns out my previous DSL provider officially went out of business in October 2004, but never bothered to tell anyone.