If they had made any decent investment in plant, or had not run the DSL CLECs out of business, they could make money on DSL and Video services, or by leasing the unused copper. There's no sympathy for companies that have been nothing more than obstacles to progress.
-----Original Message----- From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:02 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Telecom Collapse?
Once upon a time, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com> said:
I deliberated for a while on whether to send this, or not, but I
might be of interest to this community:
One thing doesn't make sense in that article: it talks about POTS being subsidized by other services, and people cutting POTS lines. Wouldn't that be _good_ for the companies and their other services? The way
Chris Adams wrote: figure it the
article describes things, fewer POTS lines = smaller subsidies taken from other services = better profits for other services and the company.
the lines are still there and still require maintenance so they loose money on it.