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RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:05:32 -0500
On February 28, 2015 at 17:07 gwardell () gwsystems co il (Gary Wardell) wrote:
Actually, I think the incumbents do get it, at this point - at least Verizon does. FIOS is a pretty nice offering, and they offer some pretty high speeds, both up and down.
Don't hold your breaths. Back around 2000 Verizon took about $2B in tax breaks to "do something" with fiber. A couple of years later someone in Congress noticed they hadn't done anything (other than took the tax breaks) and got on their case, do something or return the tax breaks (and probably other trouble.) So they formed a unit and spun up FiOS. It's not a business in the traditional sense, it was a way of staying out of jail (metaphorically speaking.) That's why it happened for a while and then came to a halt. Not that the unit didn't give it the old college try, you can do some interesting things with a coupla billion in cash and a mandate. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
Current thread:
- RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Barry Shein (Feb 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Barry Shein (Feb 28)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Lyndon Nerenberg (Feb 28)
- RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Frank Bulk (Feb 28)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Lamar Owen (Mar 02)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Owen DeLong (Mar 02)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Lamar Owen (Mar 02)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Owen DeLong (Mar 02)
- RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Chuck Church (Mar 02)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] N. Max Pierson (Mar 02)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Mark Andrews (Mar 02)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Owen DeLong (Mar 02)