[Sorry to bring this back towards the topic at hand, but....] On Jul 26, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
that said, can I get FIOS w/o any other Verizon crap? I just want the fiber transport to an exchange... want my own ISP/peering, not theirs. They wont sell it.
Anyone find a 'Commodity' seller of IP connectivity that will provide that ?I haven't in a Number of years now . Imo , it appears to be company cowardice . But then again alot can go wrong even if you filter correctly . But I'd really like to find a provider that 'Can' . Just like the little train .
First, I should say that I am not defending VZ or any other company. However, I don't think it's fair to claim VZ sells FIOS and therefore should also sell dark. The two items are vastly different services. I seriously doubt "cowardice" is stopping VZ from giving bill fiber. Hell, they'd likely make a LOT more money off selling him dark than selling him FIOS. There are lots of providers in major metros (where I know bill lives) that sell things like 10 Mbps point-to-point circuits. But dark fiber is frequently hard to come by even between two telco hotels in the same city. Asking for dark fiber from $RANDOM_HOUSE to, well, anywhere, that's going to be just a little out of the ordinary. So if you want to complain about something, complain about something reasonable. Lord knows the telecos have given us enough targets. -- TTFN, patrick