[34678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Systemic problems at Verizon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Fri Feb 16 10:46:27 2001
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:37:27 -0500
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
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David Lesher wrote:
>
> 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.
Actually, Verizon is hopeless for any service OTHER than POTS. Whether
it's DSL, T1, ISDN, etc., if it isn't POTS, it's not important to them.
I had a T1 that got pulled apart weekly 'cause the guys on the poles
with the test sets didn't hear dial tone, and needed pairs. They
apparently didn't know what those funny "DATA" tags were.
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