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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (7035)	5/21/2000 12:54:00 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Frank, My Covad/Verio 144 ISDL was out from 6am to about 7pm today. The fix was the Covad person cancelled and re-provisioned my line with PacBell in about three minutes of typing - no truck roll. petere

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (7035)	5/21/2000 7:55:00 AM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Frank-- I agree with much of what you say. I don't want to turn this thread into a BellSouth bashing session but I believe BS, as the ILEC, is not much different than the others, say PacBell. They failed to adequately provision the DSL infrastructure to support the service and in general lack the competence to do so. All are overly bureaucratic and none, as far as their ISP activities, like DSL service, answer to ANY PUC. I know that in FL very well. I believe that the ILECS need oversite in this arena. I also have the opinion that the ILECS were forced to offer this token DSL BB service in order to fend off the onslaught from cable. I'm sure you remember the other golden opportunity the ILECs had-- B-ISDN. Now they all have another opportunity to screw up--- DSL.