Monday, February 12, 2007
Even in good old other-world Boca Chica telecommunications are absolutely essential… not least demonstrated by the increasing popularity here at Playa Vista of the Wi-Fi service we offer via our high speed internet connection. As you may or may not know ‘Verizon’ was the name of our telephone line and internet provider until very recently although presumably many of you will know that not too long before that the name was Codetel.
We have presented stories about these market dominating players before (e.g. 31st August 2003)… and although we are highly satisfied with our internet service in general, a detail of a thorn is pricking us again with regard to these drastic corporate changes. We, like everyone else in this country, had to adjust when Codetel became Verizon, and we accepted whatever hassle it took to change our stationery and specifically make allowances for the integral e-mail address change from Codetel.net.do to Verizon.net.do. Image wise we actually thought it to be a step forward as Codetel smacked of old third world monopoly and Verizon had the fresh flavor of modern American competitiveness.
For your information - a little research shows that Codetel was originally constituted as a subsidiary of the Anglo Canadian Telephone Company as far back as 1930.
So… strike us down with a feather, to now learn that America Movil, the latest owner of the Dominican telephone-net, have decided to revert to the name Codetel for the telecom part of their business! That means all e-mail account addresses currently reading Verizon.net.do will again become Codetel.net.do. For the consumer an extremely irritating and costly little dance one step forward followed by another backwards!
Well, at this point we at Playa Vista are a bit tired of dancing entirely to the tune of the insensitive giants and hereby say ‘adios’ to Verizons and Codetels in the hope that you all will welcome our new easy-to-remember e-mail address namely: Email@PlayaVistaBocaChica.Net which functions nicely in harness with a little web site we have going illustrating what we can offer at and through ‘Playa Vista Boca Chica’… the official name of our cozy international beach-establishment here beside the azure blue Caribbean Ocean.
Keep in touch!
Posted by Playa Vista @ 01:16 PM CST
