From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 6 16:17:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07428 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netdev.comsys.com (netdev.comsys.com [192.94.236.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07417 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@comsys.com) From: alex@comsys.com Received: from comsys.com ([204.202.49.59]) by netdev.comsys.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22343; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:14:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3579CD5B.87CF88DC@comsys.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 16:14:35 -0700 Organization: RCS, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jawaid Bazyar CC: inet-access@earth.com, linuxisp@friendly.jeffnet.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, iap@vma.cc.nd.edu Subject: Re: US West and RADSL (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to the Telcom Act 96, the local loop must be made available. I'll call it their personal property if my only choice was to pay for it the past 35 years. I don't agree that ISPs aren't making money on DSL deployment. I agree there are things telcos could do to improve what they do and be more profitable and a benefit to consumers. I don't think this recent proposal is one of them. I think you have one option to go with US West's proposal, but you have no other option from a similarly positioned company. That sucks. It will suck even worse if it succeeds in stopping anyone else from getting into that business. The conflicts arrise in being a monopoly, and wanting to be an even bigger one. Personally, I view the local telcos troubles akin to the communist factories of the old USSR. They were garrenteed revenue, why would they work harder? That system didn't work there, why would I want to encourage one-choice business here? When there are several local telephone companies working on a level playing field you can argue 'personal property' more effectively, and show that choice (marketforce) drives the local loop economy. Until then the "one DSL supplier" in town idea still sucks. In a recent speech, the goverment stated that 30% of the growth in the US economy came from Internet associated companies. I'm pretty sure that doesn't have much to do with very large businesses which created an lock on Internet techologies. Compare this with the SS7 network sometime for fun. PS: How does Netscape email work? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message