Only too true. I live in Menlo Park, again Silicon Valley, and have been waiting for DSL for 2 years. Pacbell have delayed their RT project, Project pronto, for my neighbourhood till 2004. I was told by the Emerging Products division it was because they had no way of making money on project pronto so they were not able to move forward. At work we have recently moved our office and AT&T with Pacbell are now months late on simply turning on our T1 trunks. Wires are in the ground everything but they can't seem to work something less complex than the PC on my desk.
So I live in the fabled silicon valley where I can't get DSL and where my employeer can not get T1 telephony into their business. I live in the 70's as far as my telecommunications technology goes all because of Pacbell (SBC), a state sponsored monopoly.
Its time these monopolies were forced into handing over technology segments on their last mile if they fail to implement them within a reasonible period of time.
How does one go to Washington to present to one of these regulatory committees as a member of the community?
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Only too true. I live in Menlo Park, again Silicon Valley, and have been waiting for DSL for 2 years. Pacbell have delayed their RT project, Project pronto, for my neighbourhood till 2004. I was told by the Emerging Products division it was because they had no way of making money on project pronto so they were not able to move forward. At work we have recently moved our office and AT&T with Pacbell are now months late on simply turning on our T1 trunks. Wires are in the ground everything but they can't seem to work something less complex than the PC on my desk.
So I live in the fabled silicon valley where I can't get DSL and where my employeer can not get T1 telephony into their business. I live in the 70's as far as my telecommunications technology goes all because of Pacbell (SBC), a state sponsored monopoly.
Its time these monopolies were forced into handing over technology segments on their last mile if they fail to implement them within a reasonible period of time.
How does one go to Washington to present to one of these regulatory committees as a member of the community?