Qwest Denies Using FTTN Glitch To Kill CLECs > I wonder why

reply to fiberguy

Re: Uhm...you are REWRITING HISTORY!

Pole capacity is not filled to capacity, for one. Second, I'm talking about CABLE ISPs who built their own networks. DSL by the telephone was not subsidized by tax payer money. You DO know that the telephone companies DO make profits don't you? They DO have money to run their own installs. The tax payer money is used to build out the lines - period.

You're sitting here putting words in my mouth..

and GOD FUCKING DAMN IT! I do NOT shill for the companies - learn to read! You are like anyone else here is is fair weathered and uses the least path of resistance when it comes to an argument. I have slammed both cable and phone here and yes, I will admit, I slam phone more - becuase they deserve it as you said in your own post! They raped this country for years for a utility. Cable, if they want to, is a luxury and if they want to run themselves into the poor house are more than welcome to. Television remains an option in this country outside of OTA programming.

I agree with you when it comes to phone companies not pulling their weight. They are like bad unions in this country that look to the government for survival and life lines. Cable came into play and saw an opportunity to extend a second line of service to the consumer which, today, is forcing the hand of telephone to compete for once. And, when the chips are down, they run to the government for more money and rules that cap cable so they can't do exactly what competition is supposed to do.

Telephone deserved to be slapped hard back in the 80's and unfortunately it all amounted to nothing more than a soccer mom's time out today. Phone is king for inventing fees and surcharges. What forced the telephone company, a tax payer subsidized utility, to stop renting telephones was the government and it was the best move that ever happened.

People need to stop thinking that cable and telephone are the same - they are not! Cable was built on private money while telephone was built on partial government money. One is a utility, the other is a luxury.

There is more room on poles to build more services.. and you also have to remember, WHO owns the pole? Most are owned by power, some by phone, and a few owned by cable. There are ares that I know that have 1 power, 1 phone, and three cable services. You CAN build services closer than they are today. The issue is that there is not enough consumer demand to have that many services which allow for more than what we have out there to sustain a viable business model. There are cities out there with over-builders and they are certainly not rolling int he dough. Even Utopia isn't doing too well.

No where in my post did I call for anyone to bring all that crap back. What I remotely said, that would trigger what you claimed, was that we don't have a right to tell the private companies what to do with their businesses.. if you want to do it better, drop your own money and do it right. In a free and open market, that's the rule. You're trying to mix socialism and capitalism together and it won't work. Government is supposed to set a basic set of rules (regulation) and leave it be. The free market place will decide. Where the failure has been is TOO much government involvement. When a free market company comes in and decides the rules don't fit their needs, THEY want them changed so they buy their changes from their paid pieces. Its government which is corrupt and making the problem here. And yes, PEOPLE.. WE THE PEOPLE are half the market place and responsible for 50% of the issues in the free market place today.