Surfinusa
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join:2001-02-08
| reply to nekote
Re: big deal?
Bell South is in debt from what I have read. So if they owe $22 Billion I am sure I won't see DSL for many years. At least Engineers told me that not for another year. Every year they say that. This is a joke. Over 500 people in this community already established. Down the block people are getting DSL that live in Mobile homes. Hello its an old folks mobile home park. Don't they know this? Wow money well spent. Good job. Too much competition from the BIG Cable Companies for the public to worry about. I think if Bells don't consolidate again they will be history anyway VOIP is the next Generation. Eventually Cable will go Fiber to the home not much further they are already running down everyone's street. Need better competition. |
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nekote
join:2000-12-16
Hopkinton, MA
1 edit | reply to Rob
Yea, I sure wanna' continue down the path to re-constitute that golden era.
When the Ma Bell monopoly bean counters wanted to keep their little world just as it was.
300 baud dial up speeds.
DSL that was always just ahead, but never available.
Telephone interconnect / safety device to protect Ma Bell's phone network (for a hefty "rental fee", of course) from nasty third party phone makers.
Long Distance fees astronomical, compared to today's pennies per minute / "free" VoIP.
While I loved the standardization and universal availability, the death grip on innovation only ended via the courts - MCI's initial long distance microwave service - and then the full blown breakup.
And look at the unbelievable foot dragging by the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILEC) monopolies that hobbles the competitive CLECs, keeping them at the mercy of the ILECs.
Monopolies are a bad idea.
Fewer services, glacially slow innovation, very high prices and incredible barriers to market entry by newcomers.
Just look at what the cable providers (say, Comcast) are doing to hinder Verizon from entering "their" video / TV market. Well, Gee, cable had to get a franchise license, community by community, some 20 years ago. The new guys should have to, too, right? Plain old bare knucle resistance by a high priced monopoly to a competitive newcomer. |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
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join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
 ·Comcast
| reply to Boomerang86
said by Boomerang86  :SBC deployments of FTTN and DSL are already dead slow... this will do NOTHING to improve that, though the newly formed company will probably enhance shareholder value. Bellsouth has a few communites with FTTP already (3 different general of fiber optic systems + Copper). AT&T may take these communities and 'upgrade' them to make it their first 'real' FTTN services.
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