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Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Mon Apr 18 17:27:38 2005 
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Andy Johnson wrote:

>
> Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> My speculation is that their billing/accounting system is based on a
> POTs number, and since these customers will not need one, they will have
> administrative errors managing accounts.

that'd be unfortunate, what with number portability and all, yes?