On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:11:39PM +0000, 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.
I gather that the company providing FIOS is an unreg subsidiary, and a CLEC, and therefore doesn't have to *sell* you transport, voice or data. How they get to be in the wire centers, I'm not clear, though i understand they are. I *do* have the FIOS Tampa and National NOC phone numbers, if anyone needs them; the St Pete Times did a piece on them when they first rolled out, and were indelicate enough to use a high-res pic of their warroom as the lede, with the numbers clearly readable. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)