[86679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Nov 14 11:22:31 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Blaine Christian <blaine@blaines.net>,
Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:04:46 EST."
<Pine.GSO.4.58.0511141103370.27792@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:22:02 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0511141103370.27792@clifden.donelan.com>, Sean Donela
n writes:
>
>On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Blaine Christian wrote:
>> We are talking about an infrastructure that does not lend itself very
>> well to market forces. In many places FFTH and/or DSL from a single
>> carrier are becoming the only options. I would not count a 500ms
>> satellite hop as an option <grin>.
>
>The cable industry claims 97% of the households passed in the US. Why
>don't you consider it an option?
>
Do they claim to pass 97% with two-way cable?
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
