[79950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Johnson)
Mon Apr 18 17:10:36 2005
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:08:51 -0400
From: Andy Johnson <andyjohnson@ij.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.62.0504181652110.3216@vanadium.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> What possible technical issue could exist that to don't have to wire the
> dslam to a pots splitter?
>
> Actually, even if they did wire it to a pots splitter, and there was no
> pots line present, it'd still work.
>
My speculation is that their billing/accounting system is based on a
POTs number, and since these customers will not need one, they will have
administrative errors managing accounts.
Since VZ is doing their FTTP rollout, I imagine they have been tying
new customers to Physical Addresses now instead, moving away from the
old POTS based system. Again, all speculation based on how I see the
DSL/FTTP order process taking place now.
