[109725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Telecom Collapse?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Farrell)
Thu Dec 4 17:09:07 2008
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:09:00 -0500
From: "Jay Farrell" <jayfar@jayfar.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6762a99d0812040936q3308e3e4j9d16aeac87698cec@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
The Verizon lay-offs article you linked to ("Verizon just laid off thousands
of people "<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E2DE113CF93AA15751C1A9649C8B63>)
in the blog post is dated December 29, *2002*
Cheers,
Jayfar
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard <web@typo.org> wrote:
>
> > That the old ILECs are having problems due to the fact that few if any
> > of them know how to run a decent business is not exactly news. IMO, it
> > might be best if some of them were finaly placed in the position of
> > figuring out how to come into the 21st century and actually compete
> > for business.
>
>
> I wasn't going to say anything, but as long as you brought it up ...
>
> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/12/fiber-to-the-home-ideal-econom.shtml
>
> Outlandish and bizarre, yes, but perhaps no more so than the other things
> you read in the
> papers these days? --jim
>
