On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:51 01PM, JC Dill wrote:
> On 20/12/10 2:15 PM, David Sparro wrote:
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>> There is no monopoly. They've already experimented with that and
>> (apparently) decided that it wasn't worth it.
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>> http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/DN-verizon_17bus.State.Edition1.f7543b.html
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> Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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> Do you have any cites saying that this was actually rolled out? Or did the
> project get cut during the financial crisis, and never actually rolled out?
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> The issue I have with all these "cites" is that none of them are for services
> that are up and running. They are all press releases about something that
> will supposedly get built, maybe.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever
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Maybe I've lost the thread context, but if you're talking about FIOS it most
certainly is running, in many places
(http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/aboutFiOS/Overview.htm?CMP=DMC-CVS_ZZ_ZZ_E_TV_N_X001).
My town has it; Comcast's responsiveness improved dramatically after FIOS was
rolled out.... Speeds are good, prices less so, and if memory serves they
charge something like $40/mo extra for static IP addresses.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
