Re: Choice of ISP

["Ward Vandewege" <user=150@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:38:32PM -0400, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: 
> David Kramer wrote: 
>> 
>> They have no motivation to maintain my copper.  They hate copper and 
>> want to move everyone over to FiOS. 
> 
> What really needs to happen is a change in regulations. The phone   
> company should be required to resell fiber services, just as they are   
> required to resell copper services. To make the landscape fair, the   
> cable companies should also be required to resell their carriage 
> services. 
> 
> The real reason they want to migrate people to FIOS is that once they   
> do, Verizon pwns you. Right now, they have an incentive to offer poor   
> service to copper customers in order to move them from a regulated   
> service to an unregulated service. If you have no Verizon copper coming   
> to your house, you are cut off from all alternative telephone and   
> internet providers other than cable; a duopoly in most locations rather   
> than a monopoly (a few places around here have RCN available as a second   
> cable company), but still very bad for the consumer. 
> 
> If I were determining the policies, I'd go farther and separate the   
> carriage and content businesses; that is, the company that wires your   
> house would NOT BE ABLE to sell you television or internet services,   
> only provide the conduit for other people to sell you those services.