----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Levine" <jo...@iecc.com>
> They sure seem ready to take down the oopper. The installer was sad > when I told him to leave my six-pair copper cable alone even though > nothing is using it now. Sure; ILECs would *love* to deprovision their copper end networks. But that's not necessarily a great idea, societally; always-on dialtone (or, at least, dialtone with a much higher reliability than VoN) can be pretty important. My LECs in Florida seem to manage five 9s pretty handily at the station set; betting FiOS isn't managing that. They *tried* to get permission to do this in NYC after Sandy, and someone (NYPUC?) told them to pound sand; if the customer had copper, you *had* to give it back to them; you could not force them to voice-over-FiOS. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
