----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Thomas" <m...@mtcc.com>
> > VZ wants to get rid of their copper plant. It's expensive to > > maintain, and it requires that they sell service to competitors. > > Once they've disconnected their customers from it, they can just > > eliminate the copper plant. POTS service which ILECs provide, is > > basically copper service. So once the copper is gone, they are no > > longer in the heavily regulated POTS business. The result being, > > they can do whatever they want. > > I can understand their motivation if what Jay writes is incorrect. My > guess is that Jay may be correct technically, but VZ does it anyway > because they figure they can get away with it. Someone tells me off list that indeed, if the plant isn't *there*, VZN isn't required to build it. Now, if that's the case, then they can't adminstratively block *someone else* from building it, either... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
