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Verizon, Copper, Fiber, and the Truth
Alexander Graham Cracker writes "Starting last spring, reports began surfacing of Verizon routinely disabling copper as it installed its fiber-based FiOS service. We discussed the issue here a couple of times. In my experience, every time Verizon has installed FiOS at a friend's house, they have insisted they have to cut off the copper and move the POTS to the fiber. By doing so, they block anyone else such as COVAD or Cavalier from renting the copper for competitive access. Sources report that today, at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Verizon executive VP Thomas Tauke denied ever doing that. (The transcript should be up in a day or so. The AP coverage does not mention this detail.) I wonder if Rep. Markey's staff is interested in hearing from people who experienced Verizon disabling copper, and without notice?"
Yeah, there isn't much that can be done. A president just does not have the power to fix the problem. (I mean a president other than Dictator Bush.)
You need to put heat on the local city government. (and you better not run a small business if you plan on doing that.)
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Bush is progressive? WTF is the PATRIOT Act? I don't think he was going for NAZI progressive... And Hell yea, Make the poor, poorer and breakout the guns, viva La Révolution!
Whatever insight your post had, I reverted to zero upon reading you call it a "Triple Play" with a straight face.