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@teletech.com | Well my 2cents... Well to be honest I think that was a bad deal for Verizon(bell) to take money and not provide service. Also there are conflicting statements which Im gonna try to research. For 1 Verizon doesnt necessarily have to lay fiber to get speeds up to 50mbps+ up and down. There is a new standard for Regular copper to hit speeds of 100mbs down/up. So that is something that is being pushed nationwide actually.
"Verizon contested that interpretation, and instead said it committed to providing broadband at a speed of 1.5 megabits per second, which can be handled by copper wires." That smells like political bs. Wierd how the terms to the service are misinterpreted but the MONEY 2.1B wasnt misinterpreted....sounds fishy dont it?!?!!
Either way I think the whole consortium to bring "AMERICA" up to speed is going to take time and understanding from both average joes to politicians. You have to think about it like this. Everyone in America isnt connected to the net , everyone doesnt "like" the net, some people could care less for the net. Security risk open up vastly when you provide anything past 100kbps to anyone. Hey think viruses and network outages are bad now. Consider the toll damage when you unleash 50mbs connections to your grandparents who dont know alot about computers but just wanna check/send email. If they dont safeguard there cpus then guess what they could be a host to potential damage to not just there personal systems but to anyone on the net for flank attacks by hackers.
"If I'm paying for a Ferrari and I get a skateboard... I think that's a big scam," said Bruce Kushnick, chairman of TeleTruth." was a funny comment to me because hey its true when you think about it.
But hey I feel if the state implied FIBER OPTIC verbal/written/expressed then they should get it because hey they forked over 2.1B and it wasnt an issue to recieve(continue to recieve) the money. I know Verizon East really has been through alot with Bell Ties/Issues so I feel everyone there with complaints. Im glad that verizon isnt the phone carrier down here but dont think for 1 second that really any phone carrier isnt just as ruthless as the next. The goodie goodie image they portray is far from reality.
The technology is out there to provide 100mbps connections through copper its currently being introduced/proposed/regulated through the govn. and to tell the truth is america ready for that speed? Bush wants it and heck he even passed a bill for it to happen so who knows....Bush wants AMERICA to be connected 100mbps by the year 2010 or 2015. I would love to see Verizon actually get the Fiber Optics out because from my knowledge when a new community came up in as I recall in Arizona a new network company established the houses all with Fiberoptic connections and provided digital cable/telephone services/internet connections through it. The final reports from it was astounding and it made noise round 98-99. Since then that type of development was made through a few new comunities in CA and FL and TX. Each one was very successful and customers experienced hardly any downtime or issues with service compared to todays standards. So I mean I would love to see a nationwide momentum to fiberoptics but hey im sure hackers feel the same.
I think verizon owes each of you $1k for no service commitement and woes of settlement. Till then "Bitch", and do anything to get the message across. Even though I work for the filthy company they should clean there hands. Dirt is external and internal with verizon. I feel your cries. |
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"Why would anyone want more than 640K?"
It's a darn good thing that all these freeways weren't built because America wasn't ready for them. Can you imagine the damage when you unleash a car that can do 70mph to your grandparents who don't know a lot about automobiles but just wanna go to a supermarket?
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There is a difference. State agencies license and enforce laws governing drivers and their ability to actually drive. They also ensure that there is a "firewall" of insurance (minimum coverage) in most states that is covering the driver/car in question. So if Grandma goes 70mph and kills someone, it will be investigated. There is no local, state or federal government agency that actually checks up on whether you have or know how to engage a firewall, check email and not open attachments from strangers or suspect ones even from friends, and avoid malicious code from browsers and peer to peer file sharing utilities, etc. I'm not certain I want one either, except maybe to verify the sender of email, and shut them down for spam or viruses/worms, and only bring them back up if they are complying.
On another front. I'm from PA. I remember this "bill" and the implications that were brought to the attentions of those I worked for at the time. I did not however research the terms ot the agreement, I just got word of mouth from higher ups in my organization at the time what it entailed and what it would do for us, but didn't check the claims with either the government docs or Bell Atlantic cum Verizon.
The way it was presented to us is this: I worked until 2000 For the Carnegie Science Center, part of the Carnegie Museums Of Pittsburgh, and loosely affiliated in this event with CMU and University of PGH, all the other higher learning schools of the area, and the City of PGH government and school systems. The promise was such: In return for the Tax breaks, and opening some right of ways cheaply for the fiber backbones, they would hook up all Schools, Government buildings and larger Non Profits/Libraries to the back bone for mega projects for free (for some unspecified time). And this evolved into a deal where they would partner (by 1998 or 99) with the groups to do things like making Diskless CPU"s in public places able to access data from Diskless CPU's in Schools, so kids could continue research where ever they were without moving physical stuff around as they moved around. They would log in at the next place and their "workspace:" would be preserved as it was when they left the previous one. Eventually the access would be available in homes as well. To put it simply, I don't believe they fully followed through, but last I checked they were all doing IP6 research with CMU using these installed updates to the local (so to speak) back bone in PGH. So they did follow through with what was promised, though I don't know at what bps or Mbps the connections were made, I do know that my replacement/counter part at the old job told me about the major upgrades both in and outside the building to the whole network, shortly after I left. As I didn't care too much, I didn't ask what speeds all the new fiber was running at (previously a mix of mostly 10 and some 100baseT copper).
And that's the truth. :P |
