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| DATE | 2009-07-29 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Moving ISP Services
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:34:08 -0400
From: Ruben Safir
To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Moving ISP Services
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:29:24PM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Ruben Safir wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58:03AM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> >
> >> If it's about price, we're
> >> talking your cable company or Verizon. Take your pick between them.
> >> No need to explain to me how Verizon is evil, I know all about it, but
> >> those are your choices.
> >>
> > Which is bizzarre because outside of the political issues, who would use
> > DLS today at the prices things are at.
> >
> >
> Verizon's getting very aggressive about FiOS, their FTTP offering, which
> aside from the particularly crappy router they want you to use with it,
> is much faster and available under similar terms as Verizon DSL.
> They've also been in the news for ripping your copper out at their box
> to ensure you can never return to DSL.
>
> - Ron
Yeah - That is OLD news. People unhappy with it wanting to go back to
copper were stonewalled. But the Cable companies are equally bad, and
in some ways worse since they have a history of doing QOS and are
copyright content owners.
Ruben
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