[133978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Dec 20 21:07:26 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4D100805.4090602@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:07:14 -0500
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:51 01PM, JC Dill wrote:
> On 20/12/10 2:15 PM, David Sparro wrote:
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>> There is no monopoly. They've already experimented with that and =
(apparently) decided that it wasn't worth it.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/DN-verizon_1=
7bus.State.Edition1.f7543b.html=20
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> Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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> Do you have any cites saying that this was actually rolled out? Or =
did the project get cut during the financial crisis, and never actually =
rolled out?
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> The issue I have with all these "cites" is that none of them are for =
services that are up and running. They are all press releases about =
something that will supposedly get built, maybe.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever
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Maybe I've lost the thread context, but if you're talking about FIOS it =
most certainly is running, in many places =
(http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/aboutFiOS/Overview.htm?CMP=3DDMC-CVS=
_ZZ_ZZ_E_TV_N_X001). My town has it; Comcast's responsiveness improved =
dramatically after FIOS was rolled out.... Speeds are good, prices less =
so, and if memory serves they charge something like $40/mo extra for =
static IP addresses.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
