 elbm
join:2000-08-03
Reisterstown, MD | Nothing different here They are doing the same as every other industry does-- moving their operations/manufacturing to a place where it is cheaper to build what they sell. Textiles did it, auto did/is doing it, electronics did it.... VZ is no longer a fully regulated utility, they are for profit corporation that primarily answers to share holders. We had unbiased universal service here but that was broken apart in 1984. Had ATT/Bell Systems been kept together you would most likely be paying more but there would be more uniform coverage of residential data services. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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| said by elbm:Had ATT/Bell Systems been kept together you would most likely be paying more but there would be more uniform coverage of residential data services. Yeah... ISDN.
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| no we'd still be on 14.4 dialup. |
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each year it probbly be 1kb a download |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to KrK
said by KrK:said by elbm:Had ATT/Bell Systems been kept together you would most likely be paying more but there would be more uniform coverage of residential data services. Yeah... ISDN. Well, answer this, what residential broadband technology EXISTED in 1984? DSL was a doctorate thesis back then. HFC? maybe. In alot of other countries, ILECs invested in HFC networks in the territories of other ILECs and vice versa.
T1s were cost prohibitive because they were Serial Ports with repeaters every 6000 feet, not the cheap and profitable T1 over DSL stuff they do today.
Fiber? um, did we even have an trans-ocean fiber optic line yet in 1984? Let along a T3? |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | No, I'm talking about that's what they'd be offering today if Ma Bell was still around  |
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