Qwest: Spirit of Service. They should change their name to “Qwest: very expensive, and doesn’t treat all customers equally.”
My parents are on the Glacier View Fire Department. Supposedly, GVFD gets their Internet and phone at residential rates because they’re a non-profit organization. Well, when I spoke to a Qwest representative (Veronica, I think was her name), she told me that non-profits don’t get any discounts.
…as they say in Canada……EH!?!?!?!
Needless to say we are not giving them our business for phone. But we are giving them a 1-year contract on DSL. 1.5mbps down / 768 kbps up for about $50/month plus the incredibly ridiculous amounts of taxes, surcharges, and other retarded fees and taxes and surcharges. The “phone,” I have decided, will be a T-Mobile prepaid cell phone. In fact, here’s a picture:
It’s cheap, and you get great reception in the studio. Plus we don’t have to worry about ringers or anything! 🙂 I’m not expecting this phone to get used that much, in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if it only gets used for emergency dialing. Everyone’s cell phone works in the studio, so there’s really no point in having a line down there. Plus, “call ins” will be handled with VoIP. It’s cheaper to do VoIP for a radio station since the call audio is already on a computer system, and thus easily outputted to analog audio. No expensive hybrids or anything like that to buy.
In other, studio-related news, we’re still trying to decide on what colors to paint the studio. Blue, black, gray, white, black, and blue are favorites thus far. “Dark colors” in general have been picked. Casey, a person in my entrepreneurship class, described what he wanted simply as “dark colors.”
Personally I like the idea of gray walls. Here are some webcam pics of some radio studios (KALC Alice 105.9 and KSME Kiss) that I got earlier today:
Notice how in both studios they have fairly “bright” walls, white/grayish. To be specific I’d say the Alice studio has whiteish/grayish walls and the Kiss studio has more of a beige wall. Obviously these are webcam pictures, so the color quality isn’t exactly stellar, but it demonstrates what a typical radio studio would look like. (But then again, we’re no average radio station, are we?)
Plus Simone wants to plaster the walls with posters and stuff anyways. So why not paint it something normal and just plaster it over? I like the idea of gray because it matches with the equipment (most equipment is black or some tone of gray or silver), and we can paint a logo or hang something on the wall and it will most likely look good (since gray is a mixture of black and white, a black poster will look just as good as a white poster would)
Those are my plain and simple thoughts. Oh, and it SUCKS being sick! Being home sick! Grr.
So anyways, hopefully the people at Qwest will call me when I’m actually available (meaning here at home). Of course, if I’m not here, I guess I’ll just have to call them back!
In the meantime…hopefully I’ll be better tomorrow and be able to go back to school. Staying home all day is really, really, really boring.
And that reminds me, Justina dropped off our grant application, and apparently the people who work at the Bohemian Foundation are very quiet. Hmm……
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