| Get Real... Folks, it was never a technical issue, it was a cost recovery issue. Those copper lines for the most part were installed and maintained under a regulated tariff.
You want dry loop DSL? Fine. All those cost allocation, billing and accounting systems need to be reworked. The cost of billing and maintaining those lines needs to be portioned out so that naked subscribers pay their share of the infrastructure costs. And the cost of making all those accounting changes needs to be recovered.
Now, you look at just the service side of the business. Your naked DSL line goes out, so you call a service number. Who pays for the person answering the call? Dial tone subscribers or DSL subscribers? Or do you incur the cost of running two separate service desks?
Now the tech rolls. He traces the problem to a broken wire half way between the CO and your house. Who pays for the tech time? Is it a naked DSL problem or a dial tone problem?
None of these problems are insurmountable, but they all take time to resolve and come up with a reasonable way to allocate costs.
I know conspiracy theories are fun, but get real... |
