Re: Systemic problems at Verizon

[Jeff Mcadams <jeffm () iglou com>]

Also sprach Richard Welty
> Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
> > Verizon is continuing to have network problems.

> > Are things as bad in Verizon country as they got in Ameritech
> > country?  Eventually the various state PUC's had to intervene in
> > Ameritech's service problems.

> it would seem to vary depending on the ILEC/RBOC ancestry of various
> parts of Verizon. the old NYNEX (New York/New England) is bloody awful;
> the old Bell Atlantic (mid Atlantic) perhaps not so bad, and some of
> the old GTE-owned ILECs were not good at all.

> it takes a very long time for an old ILEC to change, and i'd expect
> that tens or hundreds of mergers can take place without changing the
> behavior of the old line staff out in the field much at all.

I would somewhat contradict that.  It hasn't taken GTE long at all to
adopt Bell Atlantic's anti-competitive ways with regard to provisioning
DSL.
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