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Re: HR 1542
From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm () iglou com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:02:58 -0400
Also sprach Steve Sobol
Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Look at the history of computing and computer networking...the more open solution wins, almost without fail. Open up the telco networks, and the cable networks will loose out and will cease to be relevent.
The RBOCs seem to think, however, that two wrongs make a right. The prevailing thought being something like, "Sure, openness is good, but if the cablecos aren't going to be open, then its bad for us to be open."
Uh...huh?
You've got it wrong. It's "They don't have to do it; why should we?"
But they'll give lip service that open networks are good...so the two arguments that we're attributing to RBOCs boil down to be the same thing...just stated differently.
But it's a fight that others can fight too. Big guys. AOL probably won't (AOL==Time Warner, remember), but Earthlink and MSN might.
EarthlinkMindspringOneMainSprint of BORG *is* aligned with Sprint, but Sprint isn't an ILEC in the vast majority of towns across the USA.
Everyone should be fighting for this, IMHO. Little ISPs, big-name nationwide
retail providers, and backbones that aren't associated with an ILEC. That means UUNet and Intermedia, for example. MCI isn't an ILEC in most places that I know of, either.
So why aren't we fighting?
We are...though its kinda low grade since the bigger current fight is to maintain the current openness on the RBOC networks since they seem to have the FCC and at least some Representatives pretty much on their payroll, and are doing their best to embrace and extend their monopoly out into broadband. My experiences are in dealing with BellSouth, and to be quite blunt, I can't see why anyone would want to acknowledge working for such a completely unethical company. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm () iglou com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
Current thread:
- HR 1542 Joseph T. Klein (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Steve Sobol (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Charles Sprickman (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Steve Sobol (May 05)
- Re[2]: HR 1542 Joe McGuckin (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Daniel Senie (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Joseph T. Klein (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 David Lesher (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Jeff Mcadams (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Steve Sobol (May 06)
- Re: HR 1542 Jeff Mcadams (May 06)
- Re: HR 1542 Charles Sprickman (May 05)
- Re: HR 1542 Steve Sobol (May 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: HR 1542 Roeland Meyer (May 06)
- Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US] Fletcher E Kittredge (May 07)
- Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US] Miles Fidelman (May 07)
- Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US] Fletcher E Kittredge (May 07)
- Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US] Miles Fidelman (May 07)
- Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US] Fletcher E Kittredge (May 08)
- Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US] Jeff Mcadams (May 07)
- more on cable companies RJ Atkinson (May 07)
- Re: more on cable companies Miles Fidelman (May 07)
- Re: more on cable companies Jeff Mcadams (May 07)
- Re: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US] Fletcher E Kittredge (May 07)