[34675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Systemic problems at Verizon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Feb 16 10:22:50 2001
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:19:40 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <20010216101944.26976.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> from "Sean Donelan" at Feb 16, 2001 02:19:44 AM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
>
> Are things as bad in Verizon country as they got in Ameritech country?
> Eventually the various state PUC's had to intervene in Ameritech's
> service problems.
SBC/Amth problems were|are in the POTS arena. Verizontal seems
able to handle POTS; it's xDSL they fall on their nose over.
Politically, LegisCritters are far more concerned about POTS
problems. There are too few {outraged} xDSL users to form
a voting block, at least so far.
BTW, USWorst was in deep doodoo with its state PSC's a few
years back, esp. after a written management directive to their
govt. liaison staff to "Stall, stall, stall" surfaced. Has that
changed at all?
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