[14794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Jan 24 00:46:28 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:32:41 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980123120659.00867550@mail.cyeclone.com>; from HawkeWerks Multimedia <hawke@hawkewerks.com> on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 12:06:59PM -0600
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 12:06:59PM -0600, HawkeWerks Multimedia wrote:
> Go check the UUNet pages on the xDSL services. They're picking up cabinet
> space at the Telco central office, not buying the actual copper to the home.
If you're suggesting that they don't need to rent copper from LEC's to
provide ADSL conenctions, then I suugest that you don't understand
ADSL.
If _they're_ saying it, I _have_ to attribute it to malice, they're not
allowed to be that stupid on that large a scale.
Cheers,
-- jra
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