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Re: Verizon Plans to Offer "Naked DSL" on 4/5 of its Wirelines

David Clayton (dcstar@XYZ.myrealbox.com)
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:11:20 +1100

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 22:40 -0800, Steve Sobol wrote:

> R Collinge wrote:

>> "Verizon expects "that in the not-too-distant future that you will be
>> able to get Verizon DSL without getting Verizon phone service," said
>> Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs and
>> communications. "It's a technological issue, it's not a marketing
>> issue."

> Bull.

> It's a marketing issue. It's a monopolistic
> big-telco-doing-whatever-they-want-to issue. There is no technological
> requirement for there to be a dialtone on the same line as DSL, and
> no, I'm not talking about SDSL, I'm talking about ADSL which usually
> must be bundled with POTS service.

In Australia there is (in theory) a way of getting ADSL from one
provider with "dial tone" from the incumbent telco (Telstra), it's
called the "Spectrum Sharing Service" (SSS).

There is also the "Unconditioned Local Loop" (ULL) where the incumbent
telco will just charge for the pair to your home from the exchange,
and you can then get xDSL from whoever has equipment in the exchange.

I don't think there has been too much take up as yet of these
services, but a fair few ISP's are installing their own DSLAM's in
Telstra exchanges at this moment.

There are some links to FAQ's and technical info here for anyone
that's interested:

http://www.telstrawholesale.com/products/access.htm

Regards,

David Clayton, e-mail: dcstar@XYZ.myrealbox.com
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
(Remove the "XYZ." to reply)

Dilbert's words of wisdom #18: Never argue with an idiot. They drag you
down to their level then beat you with experience.

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