[Outages-discussion] Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] [IP] Verizon customers out since Sandy in Manhattan...

[Larry Sheldon]

On 5/4/2013 12:48 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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>> From: "Jeremy Chadwick" <jdc at koitsu.org>
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>> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] [IP] Verizon customers out since Sandy in Manhattan...
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>> And here's another one, which Slashdot just posted today:
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>> http://www.app.com/article/20130503/NJBIZ/305020135/Following-Sandy-s-destruction-Verizon-switches-all-wireless-service-Mantoloking
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>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/04/0331253/in-sandy-struck-nj-town-verizon-goes-all-wireless-no-copper
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> And that's all well and good, but they *can't legally do that*.
>
> FiOS fiber is installed and owned *by a non-regulated subsidiary*, *explicitly
> (I believe they're on record) so that they will not have to provide equal
> access to it*.
>
> I'm pretty sure the wireline company can't sub out the voice service to
> the non-reg... but I am not now, nor have I ever been... a lawyer.


It appears to me that the telco's of today are in fact doing what many 
accused "Ma Bell" and the "independents" that she suckled of 
doing--being a law unto themselves with a profound "so sue me" attitude.

(Full disclosure:  I worked for one or another of the operating 
companies (not the "independents"--that would be Cal Drip and Tinkle, 
California Interstate, General Telephone and such) or one of Harold's 
Splinters for most of 30 years.)


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