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   Kingcob Bob, Dec 18th, 2006 @ 4:53pm

   
   

   "you think they've already had the Christmas carolers pay him a visit?"
   
   Lol, maybe if they're armed with killer tomatoes.

    

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   Known Coward, Dec 18th, 2006 @ 5:31pm

   
   

   Verizon

   Don't expect Verizon to learn anything about competition, particularly in broadband where they've been so slow to upgrade lines in rural areas. Some towns are still using 1960s equipment.

    

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   Jim Clark, Dec 18th, 2006 @ 6:10pm

   
   

   Re: Verizon

   RURAL Areas? I'm in Richmond, VA and my home is served by buried cable so old that it's construction is that of copper conductors with PAPER insulation and the bundle is then wrapped with lead. Often, with a heavy rainstorm, we start getting noisy phone connections due to water soaking the paper.
   Thanks, Verizon... and you start offering FIOS to areas where the copper was installed only 10 years ago, instead of areas with such old infrastructure like ours... go figure!

    

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   Goldberg, Dec 18th, 2006 @ 7:32pm

   
   

   Working for Comast??

   sheesh do you work for the cable operators? How much free cable did you get to write a hare brained article such as this? What a schmuck!!

    

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   Bumbling old fool, Dec 19th, 2006 @ 5:53am

   
   

   Re: Working for Comast??

   You are quite confused sir.
   
   This site picks on the cable companies every bit as much as it picks on the phone companies and the FCC.
   
   Seriously, next time read up a bit before you slander or you will again make yourself look like a jackass.

    

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   Dosquatch, Dec 19th, 2006 @ 7:38am

   
   

   Re: Verizon

   I'm in Richmond, VA and my home is served by buried cable so old
   

   Preach it, brother! I'm out here in Mechanicsville, with POTS cabling not much better than yours*. No DSL, no cable, questions about fibre get laughter. Dial-up barely breaks 28.8k on a good day. Satellite broadband suffers from high latency and high packet drop.
   

   I read stories here about FIOS, muni-projects, 10Mb service in other countries, and I just have to sit here thinking, WTF? And I see other articles about merger after merger, braindead decisions by the FCC, and reports that competition are alive and well that I can only imagine are a drug-induced hallucination... who do I have to beat with a stick to get real change?

   
   

   *- My POTS lines were orignally run by GTE, which Verizon bought out AGES ago (actually, it was horse-traded to Bell Atlantic in the name of "contiguous areas" well before the GTE/BA merger that created Verizon), but due to a couple of obscure implications of the trading and subsequent merger they are not allowed to rebrand our CO until God-knows-when, which means they have no interest in investing money into it or its cabling. It also means that no phone call (not also served by my CO) is truly "local" to me because because that would be some sort of cross-company collusion (how does a company collude with itself?), so even "local" calls are billed to me at a fraction of a penny per minute for the "interconnect".

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Dec 19th, 2006 @ 4:03pm

   
   

   Only Halfway?

   Only halfway? Oh well, he'll make it up to them later.

    

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   luggage, Jul 25th, 2007 @ 12:16am

   
   

   I agree about the horrible cabling! How exactly are all these mergers and competing entities and FCC decisions helping the consumers? There seems to be no change. I know that the majority of costumers live in urban areas where (for the most part, anyway), internet speeds are fine. These costumers are happy (unless you live in Richmond?), yet none of the companies seem to be willing to even take a stab at bringing high speed internet to the rural areas. What, just because I live on a ranch I’m not entitled to a high speed connection? Oh, sure, I can shell out tons of money for a freaking satellite connection each month, but who can afford that? Sorry for the rant, but I have nothing else to do while my dial up connection loads a simple webpage of mostly text.

    

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   realism oil paintings, Aug 13th, 2007 @ 11:46pm

   
   

   Kevin Martin on AT&T and BellSouth merger

   I’ve known that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a Republican who supported the merger from early on, and fellow Republican Deborah Taylor Tate complained that AT&T was forced to accept “unnecessary” conditions to win approval for the deal. Martin and Taylor Tate said the conditions “impose burdens that have nothing to do with the transaction, are discriminatory, and run contrary to commission policy and precedent.” I wonder what are these conditions.

    

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    Beky, Mar 1st, 2008 @ 8:23am

    
    

    FCC

    i will agree thaat there is no change
    http://loadingvault.com/search.php?q=FCC

     

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    framed canvas art, Jun 10th, 2008 @ 6:34am

    
    

    FCC Chairman Only Able To Help Telcos Halfway This Week

    How did everything go? Were they able to sort things out? Did everything go well? I hope you can update us regarding this matter.

     

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    Lawyers Ballengarra, Nov 21st, 2009 @ 11:18pm

    
    

    I don't think this change will be more effective. Let see what happen..?

     

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