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To: PaperChase who wrote (5972)	11/15/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: ld5030	Respond to of 12823

You're absolutely right. Even though we are dealing with publicly-sanctioned monopolies, there is a property right here that is being trampled. "Allowing access won't cost them a single penny." What a laugher. The freeloaders need a boot in the ass. Make them build their own network.

To: PaperChase who wrote (5972)	11/15/1999 8:12:00 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 12823

I got telephone solicitation from ATT to obtain local service here in Dallas. First time, I am aware that ATT can offer local service.

To: PaperChase who wrote (5972)	11/16/1999 5:41:00 AM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

..open local phone lines to DSL competitors .. Hello-- I share your view, in principle, and have felt that way ever since we had various municipalities/cities/counties throughout the country in lawsuits to open up cable access for competitors. (AOL, @home, GTE etc.) At first glance, the copper local loop would seem to be exactly the same and we might apply exactly the same principles. There is one difference and I would like to explain and share from first hand experience. We have the ILEC that owns/operates/repairs/enhances the copper pairs. For the most part, the stodgy ILECs have failed miserably over the past few years in coming to grips with the "data revolution". They failed in ISDN and now, seeing the competition for the other avenues into your home, cable in particular, have suddenly gotten religion. They have implemented the DSL stopgap, mostly ADSL and a smattering of other variants. These stodgy ILECs, PacBell, BellSouth, others, struggle by themselves to make it work while the numerous competitors, the COVADs, the Rhythms etc., where they can, have mostly blown the ILECs away with better implementations, and better service. In my case, BellSouth, they have implemented ADSL, the same as the other ILECs with the common purchase agreements. So far, so good. Now, these ILECS struggle to keep up with customer demand, they still fail to provision the infrastructure that is necessary to keep up with the DSL customer and data traffic growth. As a result, regional outages are a daily occurance, sometimes for 10-20 hours, customer support is woefully inadequate, technical expertise is not up to the level that is required to build and grow the data infrastructure-- in general, we still deal with stodgy ILECs. It is exactly this environment that competition can bring improvement to the customer. I won't bore you with the hours and hours of wasted time on telephone with semi- literate technical support, and troubletickets and escalations and all that. From my perspective, BLS is failing. I sure wish we had competition for the DSL portion of my copper pairs as it might shake these stodgy ILECs into action. Meanwhile, in BLSs' case, they strive to achieve LD by satisfing the FCC on "openness". So, let us open up the DSL spectrum portion of my copper loop.