[151446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Wed Mar 21 21:48:13 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F6A2BEB.1000809@fluidhosting.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:47:17 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: "John T. Yocum" <john.yocum@fluidhosting.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:28 PM, John T. Yocum
<john.yocum@fluidhosting.com> wrote:
> VZ wants to get rid of their copper plant. It's expensive to maintain, and
As opposed to fiber plant which is indestructible and cheap to maintain?
Well, if VZ owns the copper, if it's not being used to provide a
service, and the price of
copper keeps going up, it's only a matter of time before VZ should
want to take their bits of unused cable back. How useful is leaving
a dormant loop in place just because someone might theoretically want
it someday?
Seems like a waste for VZ not to reclaim it so it can be recycled/put
to good use.
> it requires that they sell service to competitors. Once they've disconnected
> their customers from it, they can just eliminate the copper plant. POTS
You sure the regulations won't eventually be updated to apply some
rules to whatever POTS is being replaced with? Possibly years
before they could finish eliminating their copper plant, which
doesn't
likely happen until the pricing allows POTS customers to get FiOS
delivery installed for free as a
cheaper alternative to POTS delivery.
--
-JH
