[87348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Dec 14 22:06:51 2005
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:06:24 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F3D97375-DD03-4529-87DF-6DF0384B66DC@tony.li>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:14:46PM -0800, Tony Li wrote:
>
> >I guess you missed all those trenches being dug in Verizon land to
> >install
> >fiber to the home. I guess you missed all the network upgrades in
> >ATT/SBC
> >and Bellsouth land to shorten their copper loop distances.
> >
> >Sounds like they are manufacturing more bandwidth and the zero sum
> >game
> >is getting bigger.
>
>
> I believe it when it gets to my street. So far, the reality is
> Really Slow DSL, with
> service and installation times measured in weeks at costs that aren't
> competitive. So yes, I missed all of that.
Ditto.
No matter how many million IPTV users there
are, it's not reaching the area where i live. I'd love Verizon
to come into the chunk of the SBC area where i live
that is adjancent to their existing service area and attempt
to compete with each other.
- jared
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