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RE: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells)
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:38:08 GMT
Sounds like a fruitful anti-competitive lawsuit to me, but then again, IANAL. :-) - ferg -- Josh Daymont <jdaymont () secureworks net> wrote: It isn't that simple here in the southeastern US. BellSouth controls nearly all the DSL lines in its territory, especially here in Georgia. This includes anything that is purchased from a so-called third party provider. The third party basically do the network management/ip assignments and manage the links to the backbone but Bellsouth runs everything related to the home office link by law. The alternative is to get a cablemodem, but if they were to follow suite then the only option left would be a leased line, which is too expensive for most SOHO users. I can't speak for other areas of the US; but here dealing with Bellsouth on DSL issues (I used a third party provider called speedfactory) is a nightmare. My DSL card constantly has technical trouble for no apparent reason and the only thing my provider can do is call bellsouth and ask them to look into it. As you can imagine turnaround times are measured in weeks. Pay for less than best effort? I hate to say it but I often feel like I'm paying for "no effort" from my ISP's network provider. So to address your statement about not caring about alienating their residential customer base: why would they start caring now? This has been the strategy they've successfully pursued for over a decade now. [snip] -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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