[XCSSA] DarkFiber: U Already Paided 2.5 times, DarkFibre was: AT&T IPTV

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All:

Most interesting nerd review of the AT&T death star 
service.

ONE:

According to a Bill Moyers piece a few months back on
PBS, several experts estimated that the Telcom/Cable
act of 1996 gave the Telco's $25 Billion in Tax Credits
-- which the telcos used for purposes other than 
infrastructure build-out.  Rich details here:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/citizensclass/the_net_risk/net_neutrality/

TWO:

There is much "gaming" of the "dark fiber" infrastructure
biz out in telco land, and there is much evidence that 
Telcos are holding out in many areas for the high dollar
customers rather than lock down fiber bandwidth with and
for whimpo residential folk.  When you start paying $250
to $750 per month for "T1 or better" service, a surprising
amount of bandwidth magically appears in you neighborhood.

BOTTOM LINE: In many US areas, wireline customers have
payed for -- thru fed tax credits to telcos and increase
fees to wireline rate payers (you and me, baby) -- for 2.5 
to 3.0 fiber-to-premises, equivalent installs.

I dont know about you, but I have never seen or heard of
a house with 2 or 3 fiber installed, unless the resident
coughed up his own federal reserve note dollars.

WHAT DO I USE?  After 14 years, I fired AT&T 
for invoice gaming and cram slam activity that they could 
not or would not control.  Caused quite a stir with my
case at the Texas Public Utility Commission (TxPUC), and
got about three years of billing refunded -- I think it
was "hush up" money, as AT&T was afraid I was going to 
start a class-action case, and then they would have 
200,000 cases instead of just one.

I now use a 100% cell phone solution via Tmobile, get about
100k-200kbits per second -- and it is truely mobile, almost
anywhere service -- and have been happy not to give any 
more money to the AT&T death star.

Happy bandwidth hunting.  Share success.  Shop the shit 
out of the bastards and their JerryMandered regulatory
telco world.

Regards, Ron
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Quoting xcssa-admin@xcssa.org:

> xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> > Meanwhile, this past weekend I talked with from someone living in
> > Denton, a Verzion city. They are burying fiber as fast as they can and
> > going nuts getting FIOS installed, though mostly so they can compete
> > with Charter (?) for cable TV. They hope to be fully installed there by
> > 2009 or so. And you can get fixed IPs with FIOS too. I hear they've even
> > been able to expand a bit into nearby SBC&T territory.
> 
> I believe Verizon and AT&T compete in Dallas, which is the heart of
> u-verse
> (their main NOC is there).  I believe that wherever FTTP will compete
> directly with FTTN, FTTP will win if they can price competitively.  FTTP
> bandwidth is for all practical purposes unlimited, while FTTN will always
> be
> limited by what the last mile copper can carry.
> 
> Nick
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