[80081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Sat Apr 23 14:37:47 2005
In-Reply-To: <426421E3.6040201@ij.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:36:55 -0400
To: Andy Johnson <andyjohnson@ij.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Probably to avoid the snafus of the early @Home rollouts, when at least
one person was accused of stealing cable because the field tech
installed her cable modem without an RF filter...
http://www.joabj.com/Balt/CableRobbing.html
-C
On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:08 PM, 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.
>
> 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.
