By allowing independent providers to share the Bells' lines, the independents will be able to better compete on price, the result of which is likely to force fees even lower and make such service more affordable for consumers. Until now, the independent suppliers have been largely restricted to targeting businesses.
Frank and Thread,
I just want to laugh when I read something like the above. What in the world is going to motivate the telcos to spend billions on DSL, when they have to give a, "risk-free," ride to the data CLECs once it's built? Or should they invest in all the equipment it takes, only to have to push it aside if a Data CLEC wants in? The only thing I see this doing is DELAYING the upgrades to DSL by the telcos.
I just don't get how this is going to be done? Is there that much wasted space in a central office for doubling the DSL equipment? And what do you do about NGDLCs? I wonder if SBC is really doing an end around on this ruling? If so, it won't be long before the Data CLECs start screaming to the FCC for relief.
What a nightmare of regulation. It's a wonder we even have mass deployment of dial-up modems today.
The telcos are between a rock and a hard place. They have AT&T cable network on one side, and they have the data CLECs on the other. Not a good position to be in.
Like I've said before, instead of the telcos wasting so much time and money going after AT&T to be regulated, they should have been using the chance to fight for deregulation of their twisted copper pair networks. I think by now, they could have convinced America that they need to own the copper pairs once they spend billions on it.
And I also believe that Kennard is wrong on this issue. He says one thing for the cableco, then another for the telcos. It really stinks. Must be political because it's sure not logical.
This roadblock to the telcos in rolling out DSL must be making AT&T's Armstrong pretty happy. Especially after he has been attacked so voraciously by the telcos. All the same arugments the telcos used to try and, "Forced Access," on AT&T can be used against them in, "Forced Access," by the data CLECs. I know it's not exactly apples to apples, but the analogy is similar.
MikeM(From Florida) |
