[22851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Busy Connect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Jan 28 02:12:05 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:49:05 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990127162116.00b93860@pop.mhsc.com>; from Roeland M.J. Meyer on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 04:28:39PM -0800
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 04:28:39PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> So they break the tele for modems and tell the customer that the only
> solution is to use them as their ISP? If SBC tried this, with pacbell.net,
> I'd be on on the phone to the FCC, the CPUC, my congress-critter, and my
> lawyer, not necessarily in that order. I think they call that
> anti-competitive practice by a monopoly. This is pretty egregious, why
> haven't we heard more about this, is it a new thing? More curious, how can
> an RBOC be that dumb?
You work in the industry - why do you even feel the need to ask that
question? You know the answer :)
(Yes, that was a cheap shot.)
--
Steve Sobol sjsobol@nacs.net (AKA support@nacs.net and abuse@nacs.net)
"Can you look out the window, without your shadow getting in the way"
--Sarah McLachlan - "Building a Mystery"
