Re: [privacy] Money Power vs. The NSA ? Not So Fast...

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Hi Dave,

Of course, I didn't write the article. :-)

Having said that -- I'm pretty sure that I can't get any service
from anyone other than AT&T (SBC) here in Austin -- unless I go
completely digital and go with Time-Warner Cable (another monopoly
in it's own right) -- and I'm not ready to go completely digital
on my land-line telephone yet (I personally think the technology
needs some time to mature, but that's another subject altogether).

It was, perhaps, a good illustration of how the Judge Green break-up
of Ma Bell days have somehow returned in their own weasley ways.

- ferg


-- Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu> wrote:

Fergie wrote:
> For instance, Qwest only serves those in a 14-state region from
> Arizona north to Wyoming and east to Minnesota. So those on the east
> and west coasts cannot subscribe to the carrier even if they wanted
> to.

Funny, but I passed a Qwest van on the way home and last I checked
Seattle was on (or very close to) the west coast.


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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