[Info-vax] US Broadband

[Scott Dorsey]

Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>	kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>> 
>> And THAT is a problem that you can bring up with the PUC. 
>
>Time to leave that alternate reality and come back to the real world.
>The PUC is there to rubber stamp rate increases and couldn't care less
>about the customers.

I have had very good luck getting the PUC involved here in Virginia.  Your
state may be different.  A letter to your governor can do wonders.

>> If that means burying more cable, or moving some voice lines onto pair
>> multipliers to make room for your circuit, the PUC can force the issue.
>
>Pair multipliers have not been usable since the modem speeds increased
>beyond 300 baud.  Been there, done that.  There are not going to be any
>additions or modifications to the cable plant as there is cell service
>and that meets the requirement.  The fact that no one can afford to use
>it for real data usage (other than mom and pop surfing the web to see
>cute pictures of kitties) notwithstanding.

Read what I wrote.  You take voice lines, you put them on pair multipliers,
giving you the same number of voice circuits (with somewhat worse quality)
on fewer pairs.  This frees up pairs that can be used for something else,
like a leased line.

There are indeed places where there is a constant nynexing of free pairs
going on, where as soon as anyone notices a pair that doesn't have a dial
tone on it, it gets stolen for some other service.  This is bad, but it is
not universal and there are some solutions for that as well (such as keeping
tone on at all times).
--scott

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