RE: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark. If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it? So to make this somewhat on-topic, what will the advance of VOIP do to SLA requirements? Would this be allowed to happen if customers were using an IP provider for access into their VOIP gateway? IP phone at home, VOIP gateway and "Normal" trunks at the exchange point kind of thing. James H. Smith II NNCDS NNCSE Systems Engineer The Presidio Corporation
So to make this somewhat on-topic, what will the advance of VOIP do to SLA requirements? Would this be allowed to happen if customers were using an IP provider for access into their VOIP gateway? IP phone at home, VOIP gateway and "Normal" trunks at the exchange point kind of thing.
Especially if those VoIP services were providing 911 services to large residential communities... Eric :)
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, James Smith wrote:
Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
The FCC Chairman Michael Powell did write to the Judge overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings.
If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it?
The Judge said only if "public health or safety" would be affected. A hospital or similar type of customer could come forward, and request the judge re-consider because a shutdown would affect some critical public health of safety function. But I think that is unlikely in this case.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:14:48PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, James Smith wrote:
Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
The FCC Chairman Michael Powell did write to the Judge overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings.
(Excerpt from) http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/011130/n30289284_2.html "Separately, Powell said the FCC would soon launch a notice of proposed rulemaking to examine the state of broadband with the goal of ending the government's practice of ``lurching and reacting'' to advances in the high-speed Internet access industry." Some hints that FCC may want to regulate in the case of bankruptcy providers of [internet] broadband services. This would possibly help as far as having people be required to get sufficent warning that their service is going to be terminated (such as 90+ days for those that don't pay attention to these things) and provide in this case companys like at&t bb, charter, comcast, cox, mediaone, and any other provider still (be it partially or in whole) using @home for their overall transit to arrange for a new provider of internet connectivity. (as well as the home user to persue other services and have a good way to get out of their contracts possibly [if they are not month-to-month]). - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:05:54PM -0500, James Smith wrote:
Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it?
If someone turns off your cable modem, are you unable to access the "information superhighway"? I doubt people pitched their modems in the physical sense. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:05:54PM -0500, James Smith wrote:
Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
Why should your or I pay so that others can have high speed internet access? Either high-speed consumer access is a viable industry or it isn't. Government handouts are NOT the answer. --Adam
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