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I am looking forward to the Wi-Max technology. I live in Houston, TX, and a few years ago I had AT&T Fixed Wireless that did both broadband (better than DSL, not as fast as my TWCable) and allowed two POTS lines. They put a box in my house and an antenna on my house, pointed it to a local cell tower. Good phone service, stable bandwidth. Life was good. Then they decided to cut the service and go out of business (Seems like a typical 'AT&T Business Model', ahhh for he pre-RBOC days). Anyway I liked their technology, better than most. The only problem I had was when I called AT&T they kept shuffling me around, because since it was wireless, they sent me to AT&T Wireless, but it wasn't mobile, so they sent me to the long distance company (who then started doing local dial tone, but has now gotten out of the resednetial part of that business too!) It sounds like the Wi-Max may be a better implementation of the same thing. -- Keep your critical files backed up and secure - - > Dr.Backup Remote Online Backup Service < - - > 30 day free trial period--Free help with setup < http://www.drbackup.net?pid=Coats (Extra FREE storage when you sign up using the full link above) ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Mark J. Dulcey" <mark at buttery.org> To: discuss at blu.org Sent: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:31:10 -0500 Subject: Verizon and line sharing > John Chambers wrote: > > > Stephen Ronan wrote: > > | > > | Unfortunately, the Verizon Fios Terms of Service include this: > > | > > | "You may not use the Broadband Service to host any type of > server > | personal or commercial in nature." > | > (http://www.verizon.net/policies/popups/tos_popup.asp) > > Hmmm ... > Verizon owns the phone wire coming into our house, > but we got > around this problem by going through > speakeasy.net for our > IP service, and of course speakeasy > promises to not block > ports. I wonder whether you could > also go through speakeasy to > use Verizon's high-speed fibre > lines? > > I don't think that it's likely that Verizon will make those lines > available to other carriers, now that the FCC has ruled that they > aren't required to. The feds bought the argument that they LBOCs > wouldn't put in those new lines if they were required to share them, > rather than the > (to me) more compelling argument against monopoly or duopoly power. > > I'll bet Speakeasy is evaluating 802.16 (WiMax -- standard in > progress for wide-area wireless broadband) hardware right now; once > their current line-sharing agreements expire, they may be unable to > renew them at any price. Then we can say goodbye to the existence of > ISPs with reasonable terms of service, and hello to the one-way Internet. > > Yes, I'm being apocalyptic. Yes, I really do think it could be as > bad as all that. The essential issue is control of the Internet, and > whether we allow it to pass entirely into the hands of a handful of > large corporations. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ------- End of Original Message -------
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