Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Jack Bates <jbates () paradoxnetworks net>]

On 2/28/2015 6:17 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Mind you, the truly annoying part of this story (for me) is knowing 
> Telus has fibre pedestals not a block away, with enough bandwidth to 
> serve up IPTV to all the condos in the neighbourhood. But I'm in the 
> marina across the street. Since there are only a handful of us here 
> with service of any sort, they aren't about to come out and reroute us 
> to the fibre pedestal. So I get to stay on the very long and corroded 
> copper circuit back to one of the original downtown Vancouver 
> exchanges. As one of the Telus techs said when he came out to help 
> troubleshoot a failing DSL modem: I am amazed it works at all :-) And 
> he's right -- the dB line losses are horrific. --lyndon 

The question is, if YOU paid for the fiber to be run to their ped, would 
they hook you up?


Jack