On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:51 01PM, JC Dill wrote:

> On 20/12/10 2:15 PM, David Sparro wrote:
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>> There is no monopoly.  They've already experimented with that and 
>> (apparently) decided that it wasn't worth it.
>> 
>> http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/DN-verizon_17bus.State.Edition1.f7543b.html
>>  
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>         Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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> Do you have any cites saying that this was actually rolled out?  Or did the 
> project get cut during the financial crisis, and never actually rolled out?
> 
> The issue I have with all these "cites" is that none of them are for services 
> that are up and running.  They are all press releases about something that 
> will supposedly get built, maybe.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever
> 
Maybe I've lost the thread context, but if you're talking about FIOS it most 
certainly is running, in many places 
(http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/aboutFiOS/Overview.htm?CMP=DMC-CVS_ZZ_ZZ_E_TV_N_X001).
  My town has it; Comcast's responsiveness improved dramatically after FIOS was 
rolled out....  Speeds are good, prices less so, and if memory serves they 
charge something like $40/mo extra for static IP addresses.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb






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