[79952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Apr 18 17:27:02 2005
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:26:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <426421E3.6040201@ij.net>
To: Andy Johnson <andyjohnson@ij.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Andy Johnson wrote:
>
> 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.
that'd be unfortunate, what with number portability and all, yes?
