RE: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells)

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

Josh 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.

Fergie knows as well as I do that the problem is the "local loop". Most
telecos control the local loop and therefore many people will be unable
to escape, if other teleco follow suit with BellSouth.

-Todd

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