 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Bell, Macdonald, Vail and now Seidenberg. This is what made America’s network the envy of the world for over 90 years and is once again fulfilling the manifest destiny of America being number one.
We have the Bell symbol, the symbol of excellence second to none.
From left to right we have Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and the founder of the first systems.
Second we have Theodore Vail, the man who knew the nation’s network was a natural monopoly and for it to succeed one company, a controlled monopoly, must be established, The Bell System is born.
Third we have Ivan Seidenberg, a man who started his telephone career with The Bell System in 1966 as a Splicer’s Helper, a sewer tech. He would pump out manholes and get dirty so the Splicer would not have to.
Fourth we have Angus Macdonald, a telephone lineman, who worked through the blizzard of 1888 to keep open the only long distance telephone circuits between New York and Boston. The lines remained open during the storm maintaining the only communication between the two cities.
Ivan Seidenberg took a great chance with his career and with the stockholder's money by deploying Fiber To The Premise. FTTN would have been the easy and safe way for him to go.
FiOS is still in the very early stages and those with eyes to see know that many years from now America will look back at today and say yes, Ivan belongs next to Bell and Vail.
Just so you know where I am coming from please click the picture below.
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| said by Silly :
Go travel before you get too emotional about America's communication network.
That is very nice you travail the world but you still only can see what is if front of you and not the big picture. This is rear world speeds gathered from more tests they one person can observe in 100 life times. They are listed by continent with the fastest country on that continent shown.
Asia
Japan 9,832/4076 kb/s
Europe
Sweden 7,261/2564 kb/s
North America
United States 4,692/882 kb/s
Australasia
Australia 3,676/491 kb/s
South America
Chile 1,393/520 kb/s
Africa
Reunion 1,323/212 kb/s
Now for my favorite area, I don’t have to travail far the get the facts. The 10 Central Offices are all served by residential FiOS available to everyone, no dedicated SONET rings to a collage or World Headquarters.
New Jersey FiOS areas.
This is a 10 CO average. 11,924/2520 kb/s
FiOS has been stalled in New Jersey by Cablevision and their cronies, those that slop at the local public trough.
New Jersey has had a state wide TV franchise for only 5 months. In that 5 months FiOS deployment has increased 10 fold. Check New Jersey's standing in one year when many more towns have FiOS.
As of now only 14% that can get FiOS subscribe. When word gets out that number will triple.
This is not nearly the maxim speeds available; it is the speeds the people have chosen. Think about it, even at $138 how many people want 50,000,000 b/s ?
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| This just in from Verizon.
quote:
Verizon will begin boosting speeds and capabilities on its all-fiber network when it begins deploying advanced G-PON electronics in 2007. This technology can increase downstream broadband speeds by up to four times, and upstream speeds by eight times.
4 X 50,000,000 = 200,000,000 b/s
8 X 5,000,000 = 20,000,000 b/s
Take that world, did you think TPC would let US flounder in 18th place for long? |
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 hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
kudos:4 | reply to batterup
I think Bell was Born and educated in the United Kingdom. He wasn't even a US Citizen when he was credited with his invention.
Its a stretch to claim that. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to batterup
said by batterup:This just in from Verizon. quote:
Verizon will begin boosting speeds and capabilities on its all-fiber network when it begins deploying advanced G-PON electronics in 2007. This technology can increase downstream broadband speeds by up to four times, and upstream speeds by eight times.
4 X 50,000,000 = 200,000,000 b/s
8 X 5,000,000 = 20,000,000 b/sTake that world, did you think TPC would let US flounder in 18th place for long? Heres the fixed math: 8 X 5,000,000 = 40,000,000 b/s
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 mikepdDiscoveryPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-26
New Port Richey, FL
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| reply to hobgoblin
Before the Canadians come in and claim him exclusively as their own, Bell was born in Scotland then went to Canada and from there to the U.S.
He became a US citizen in 1882.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| I had to put Bell in my story. He is so well known and the Bell System/Bell Labs and Bell logo are named after him.
Bell was lost in intellectual pursuits; the telephone was only one of them. The money and business savvy behind Bell were his partners Hubbard and Sanders. Mr. Watson was Bell Labs long before it was so named.
Elisha Gray was also experimenting with acoustic telegraphy and thought of a way to transmit speech using a water transmitter. On 14 February 1876, Gray filed a caveat with the U.S. patent office for a telephone design that used a water transmitter.
On 14 February 1876, Bell was in Boston. Hubbard, the lawyer who was paying for the costs of Bell's patents, told his patent lawyer Anthony Pollok to file Bell's application in the U.S. Patent Office. This was done without Bell's knowledge. Gray missed by that much.
So to make a long story short I used Bell as the symbol for the early years. |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| reply to dvd536
said by dvd536: Heres the fixed math: 8 X 5,000,000 = 40,000,000 b/s Sweet, I did the math in my head. Above 300 baud the zeros boggle my mind. Did you see that world a 4 followed by six zeros UP. Watch for my HD bird cam broadcast in the 2ed quarter of 2008. Just in time for the spring migration. |
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 ROCINANTEOriginal Member 007Premium
join:1999-06-29
Hartsdale, NY
1 edit | reply to batterup
It was proven that a different guy invented the telephone two decades earlier:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| No problem, Bell's lawyer got to the patent office with the papers first and the rest is history.
The telephone is not a Paris Hilton song. Hilton has exclusive rights to her work for her life + 75 years. Bell had exclusive rights for 18 years. |
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