[nylug-talk] Broadband withIP addresses

[Ajai Khattri]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Ruben Safir wrote:

> those SOB's have been choking off the NYC economy for more than a decade
> with their refusal to open up OUR infrastructure.  First they install
> fiber everywhere, and then they refuse to sell the bandwidth.  Then
> they get this crackpot idea to rip up all the fiber and sell DSL.

Its actually getting worse than that.

In some buildings in the city, Verizon is replacing almost all of the 
copper with fiber (effectively locking out anybody else selling DSL in 
that building).

And thanks to the FCC looking out for our interests, they're not REQUIRED 
to share their last mile copper or fiber with competitors anymore.



-- 
Aj.