[nylug-talk] Broadband withIP addresses

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

  perhaps that coincided with the changing of the Common Carrier
Bureau to the 'Wireline Competition Bureau'.  It seems that we have
erased Common Carrier laws from not only our lawbooks, but our history
books as well.

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