PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| Now I know why I don't have broadband from Verizon
The neighborhood has a new Remote Cabinet, that VZ spent a ton of $$$ to install. The VZ techs tell me it's all ready to go with DSL, but their bosses won't let them turn it on. I've always wonder why. Comcast doesn't serve the area, so they don't face that competitive pressure. But would that be enough reason to turn down the extra revenue, and piss off their customers like they are doing now?
Now it's clear: VZ is also withholding service from areas like ours, in order to help provide justification for this government money stream they are asking for.
BTW, note that Tauke's speech had they separate and distinct subjects: the rural broadband fund, the USF fund, and net neutrality. The USF fund, which he points out VZ doesn't get any of, is strictly for telephone service; none of it currently goes to broadband deployment. Thus, he's proposing this new, separate rural BB fund, and he's simultaneously asking that the USF be shrunk down. |
