On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:51 01PM, JC Dill wrote:
On 20/12/10 2:15 PM, David Sparro wrote:
There is no monopoly. They've already experimented with that and (apparently) decided that it wasn't worth it.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/DN-verizon_17b...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Do you have any cites saying that this was actually rolled out? Or did the project get cut during the financial crisis, and never actually rolled out?
The issue I have with all these "cites" is that none of them are for services that are up and running. They are all press releases about something that will supposedly get built, maybe.
Maybe I've lost the thread context, but if you're talking about FIOS it most certainly is running, in many places (http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/aboutFiOS/Overview.htm?CMP=DMC-CVS_ZZ_Z...). My town has it; Comcast's responsiveness improved dramatically after FIOS was rolled out.... Speeds are good, prices less so, and if memory serves they charge something like $40/mo extra for static IP addresses. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb