Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...

[Chris Woodfield <rekoil () semihuman com>]

Probably to avoid the snafus of the early @Home rollouts, when at least 
one person was accused of stealing cable because the field tech 
installed her cable modem without an RF filter...

http://www.joabj.com/Balt/CableRobbing.html

-C

On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Andy Johnson wrote:

> Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > What possible technical issue could exist that to don't have to wire 
> > the dslam to a pots splitter?
> > Actually, even if they did wire it to a pots splitter, and there was 
> > no pots line present, it'd still work.
>
> My speculation is that their billing/accounting system is based on a 
> POTs number, and since these customers will not need one, they will 
> have administrative errors managing accounts.
>
> 	Since VZ is doing their FTTP rollout, I imagine they have been tying 
> new customers to Physical Addresses now instead, moving away from the 
> old POTS based system. Again, all speculation based on how I see the 
> DSL/FTTP order process taking place now.