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Colorado Springs, CO | Get rid of the copper and change the fiber rules The FCC should allow Verizon to remove the copper lines, however they must allow any home previously served by copper converted to fiber with copper removed to have access grated on the line to CLEC's.
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| said by NOCMan:The FCC should allow Verizon to remove the copper lines, however they must allow any home previously served by copper converted to fiber with copper removed to have access grated on the line to CLEC's. Well that isn't the deal they got from Congress and the FCC to encourage them to build out fiber systems. The deal was that if they put fiber in they get to tell the CLECs to go to hell.
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hiatus | said by fAcEtIOUs:Well that isn't the deal they got from Congress and the FCC to encourage them to build out fiber systems. The deal was that if they put fiber in they get to tell the CLECs to go to hell. Anyone who believes that deal to be permanent is going to have a rude awakening in a few years. Congress certainly is not going to like being responsible for kill thousands of smaller and better ISPs and for sticking consumers with less choice and an even less competitive marketplace. Once the fibre is up, they will open it up again (if they have the interests of their constituents in mind).
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| said by bmn:Anyone who believes that deal to be permanent is going to have a rude awakening in a few years. Congress certainly is not going to like being responsible for kill thousands of smaller and better ISPs and for sticking consumers with less choice and an even less competitive marketplace. Once the fibre is up, they will open it up again (if they have the interests of their constituents in mind). I suspect the same congresscritters that ok'd the deal initially can be bought just as easily the next go around.
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said by bmn:Anyone who believes that deal to be permanent is going to have a rude awakening in a few years. Congress certainly is not going to like being responsible for kill thousands of smaller and better ISPs and for sticking consumers with less choice and an even less competitive marketplace. Once the fibre is up, they will open it up again (if they have the interests of their constituents in mind). I want to believe that it could rally be that simple. I really do. But I know from experience that an army of litigators can hold up reform until the point is moot. This country is going to have to lay in the bed that it made for a very long time to come.
OTOH there is a very important election coming up. One that will decide (or not) the new course that all of the Executive Branch agencies that have the power to reign in the new mega-Bell monopolies will take. I believe that for a nation with a GNP number that's a work of fiction, a huge trade deficit, massive debts (both public and private), and the burden of decades of unregulated corporate governance, that domestic business reform ought to be one of the top three campaign issues. |
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