----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Baugher" <ja...@thebaughers.com>
> What we've seen is that the RBOC typically has a lot of crap copper in the > ground, in a lot of cases air-core (pre gel-fill) that hasn't held up well. > With the popularity of DSL, they ran out of good pairs to use. As they ran > out of pairs, they eventually had to put in remote terminals to handle any > new voice orders. They knew the future was fiber, at least to the node, so > they had no incentive to build new copper plant, and little incentive to > maintain the existing plant. I have been saying, out loud, in public places, for at least 15 years, that Verizon's *real* incentive in doing FiOS was to clean up after 3 decades of GTE doing cut-to-clear rather than fixing actual problems in their copper OSP... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274