Re: So why don't US citizens get this?

* Patrick W. Gilmore · * Sun Jul 27 22:39:30 2008

[Sorry to bring this back towards the topic at hand, but....]
On Jul 26, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, [email protected] wrote:

	that said, can I get FIOS w/o any other
	Verizon crap?  I just want the fiber transport
	to an exchange... want my own ISP/peering, not
	theirs.  They wont sell it.
 Anyone find a 'Commodity' seller of IP connectivity that will
provide that ?I haven't in a Number of years now .

Imo , it appears to be company cowardice . But then again alot
can go wrong even if you filter correctly .

But I'd really like to find a provider that 'Can' . Just like the
little train .

First, I should say that I am not defending VZ or any other company.
However, I don't think it's fair to claim VZ sells FIOS and therefore
should also sell dark. The two items are vastly different services. I
seriously doubt "cowardice" is stopping VZ from giving bill fiber.
Hell, they'd likely make a LOT more money off selling him dark than
selling him FIOS.
There are lots of providers in major metros (where I know bill lives)
that sell things like 10 Mbps point-to-point circuits. But dark fiber
is frequently hard to come by even between two telco hotels in the
same city. Asking for dark fiber from $RANDOM_HOUSE to, well,
anywhere, that's going to be just a little out of the ordinary.
So if you want to complain about something, complain about something
reasonable. Lord knows the telecos have given us enough targets.
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TTFN,
patrick