Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
Are things as bad in Verizon country as they got in Ameritech country? Eventually the various state PUC's had to intervene in Ameritech's service problems.
SBC/Amth problems were|are in the POTS arena. Verizontal seems able to handle POTS; it's xDSL they fall on their nose over. Politically, LegisCritters are far more concerned about POTS problems. There are too few {outraged} xDSL users to form a voting block, at least so far. BTW, USWorst was in deep doodoo with its state PSC's a few years back, esp. after a written management directive to their govt. liaison staff to "Stall, stall, stall" surfaced. Has that changed at all? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433