[151438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Mar 21 16:02:10 2012
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F6A2D52.5020903@mtcc.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Thomas" <mike@mtcc.com>
> > VZ wants to get rid of their copper plant. It's expensive to
> > maintain, and it requires that they sell service to competitors.
> > Once they've disconnected their customers from it, they can just
> > eliminate the copper plant. POTS service which ILECs provide, is
> > basically copper service. So once the copper is gone, they are no
> > longer in the heavily regulated POTS business. The result being,
> > they can do whatever they want.
>
> I can understand their motivation if what Jay writes is incorrect. My
> guess is that Jay may be correct technically, but VZ does it anyway
> because they figure they can get away with it.
Someone tells me off list that indeed, if the plant isn't *there*, VZN
isn't required to build it.
Now, if that's the case, then they can't adminstratively block *someone
else* from building it, either...
Cheers,
-- jra
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