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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:53:29PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > > I love this part: > > "Tom Tauke, a senior Verizon executive, said stand-alone DSL would > eventually be expanded to all of Verizon's territory and be available to > anyone, regardless of whether they are a current customer. He said > technical issues limited the company to a partial rollout." > > > What possible technical issue could exist that to don't have to wire the > dslam to a pots splitter? > > Actually, even if they did wire it to a pots splitter, and there was no > pots line present, it'd still work. I think we all know, it was about POTS revenue protection. It's fairly easy to see that the iLECs are the big players these days in the US/Domestic market. They control the last mile, and with that comes their distinct advantage. Look at how they played the rules to keep the LD carriers out of the local market, compete with Covad/Northpoint through removal of line sharing agreements, and other practices against CLECs in the past. This is a positive move, and will put some pressure on SBC to unbundle their services as well. Now if we could just get them to quit trying to keep everyone out of the local space with their extensive lobbying efforts. SBC and Verizon both seem to not want anything to do with my home state (Michigan) by not offering any of the FTTH services here and still do not deliver dialtone to some parts of the state. - jared (hoping for a more competitive local loop market for residences globally). -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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