Re: Telecom Collapse?

["Jay Farrell" <jayfar () jayfar com>]

The Verizon lay-offs article you linked to ("Verizon just laid off thousands
of people "<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E2DE113CF93AA15751C1A9649C8B63>)
in the blog post is dated December 29, *2002*
Cheers,
Jayfar

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Jim Cowie <cowie () renesys com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard <web () typo org> wrote:
>
> > That the old ILECs are having problems due to the fact that few if any
> > of them know how to run a decent business is not exactly news. IMO, it
> > might be best if some of them were finaly placed in the position of
> > figuring out how to come into the 21st century and actually compete
> > for business.
>
>
> I wasn't going to say anything, but as long as you brought it up ...
>
> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/12/fiber-to-the-home-ideal-econom.shtml
>
> Outlandish and bizarre, yes, but perhaps no more so than the other things
> you read in the
> papers these days?    --jim