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Re: Illinois Residents Want DSL Pronto
from Illinois ICC Webpage »www.icc.state.il.us/icc/tc/cond29.asp#dsl
"In December 1999, the fcc issued an order that required ILEC's such as ameritech illinois, to "line share", or allow compeditors to provide data services over the same local loop that the ILEC uses to provide voice service" The FCC, ICC and other state commissions rejected the narrow view, argued by Ameritech Illinois and other ILECs, that line sharing should only apply to communities that are served by all-copper local loops, and not to communities that are served by a combination of fiver and copper facilities. Instead, the FCC and the ICC held that all ILECs are required to offer line sharing over all facilities. Indeed, the DSL infrastructure that Mr. Whitacre refers to is composed of a combination of fiber and copper facilites. Thus, to accept Mr. Whitacre's position would effectively eliminate Ameritech-Illinois' obligation to line share. It is clear that the ICC's decision is consistent with the act, with FCC precedent, and with the rulings of other states. The fact that Mr. Whitacre's letter whilly fails to address the content of these rulings undermises his positions entirely."
This is not just the ICC, its also the FCC. Both, don't just blame the ICC.
"as a matter of policy, the Whitacre letter protrays a chilling view of a future without a sensible broadband policy. As quoted above, the Whitacre letter states "Those costomers cannot now and may never, have access to DSL service" As we all know, the competitiveness of a market can be easly be measured by the ability of any one player to unilaterally control the supply of a good. Mr Whitacre's statement is clear: Ameritech Illinois controls the market so completely that it can determine if more than a million customers in Illinois will have access to broadband services. If the market were competitive, SBC/Ameritech would not be able to unilaterally halt the deployment of DSL infrastructure and deny these customers advanced telephone services"
He will have complete control.. Always...
Claim #1
"sbc communications launched a three-year, six billion dollar initiative [a.k.a. Project Pronto] to make high-speed internet service available to 77 million Americans."
Fact #1
Mr. Whitacre's suggestion that project pronto is being deployed solely to support data services is dangerously misleading. Both traditional voice-grade telephone service and data servce wil be provided over Project Pronto. Allowing ameritech to circumvent its current obligations to provide local loops to CLECs for voice service provision, under the auspices of a local loop upgrade initative, could be destructive to competition. If at any time in the future SBC/Ameritech decided to make its current antiquated loop infrastructure unavailale to CLECs (i.e., remove it from service), competitors would be left without local loop facilities over which to provide voice and/or data"
This is not only about dsl, its also about other carriers.
DSL is not a right, if you want high speed that bad enough to complain about it, get a T-1 line for gosh sakes. I am sure they will provide that to you right away, considering they make a huge profit off of it.
p.s. Earthlink Cable modem service is coming soon in At&t area's. They agreed without any problems to letting other carriers get into thier network, as long as they give them some time...... |
