Edward Craig wrote:
EWEB laid the fiber down, now to get them to provide service from the curb.
That was always the Achilles' heel of EWEB's fiber plan. Shava Nerad,
when she was EFN's General Manager, nigh on a decade ago, would go to
EWEB meetings on the fiber plan that typically went like this:
EWEB: We'll run fiber right to the house!
Shava: Sounds dandy! How will the end user connect?
EWEB: Eh?
Shava: Will there be an Ethernet jack?
EWEB: Uh...
Shava: Maybe the user will need some sort of endpoint?
EWEB: It'll be fiber! To the house!
Shava: Will the user get ISP service from EWEB?
EWEB: You're just not getting into the spirit of this...
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
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