🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4b4sai$ii5@ss2.digex.net>,
Doug Humphrey <doug@ss2.digex.net> wrote:
>
>So, little guys are ok, no SLC's - big guys get pounded - they have the
>SLC's.  Does that make it any clearer?
>
>>People keep saying that AOL and CI$ are reliably providing 28.8.  How
>>is that?
>
>They use much more expensive equipment which handles the interface with
>the phone company in a very different way - this is an option that we 
>could use, but note that this is MUCH more expensive - and note that the 
>firms who are using it, CI$ and AOL are billing by the hour, getting MUCH
>more revenue per user hour than we are.  No coincidence that.  
>
This just doesn't seem right to me, in that BA is clearly
providing different grades of POTS service to its VARs,
giving distinct competitive advantage to some.  I would
think the Public Utility Commission would take a very dim
view of this situation.  When BA begins offering their
own dial-up ISP service, wanna bet THEIR circuits won't
be the best technology can offer, while the competition
is provided with lines that are inferior but within
tarrif specs?  And when THEIR ISP customers complain they
can't (Gos forbid!) get 28.8, intervening bottlenecks
won't be immediately erradicated, while Digex, AOL, etc.
subscribers will be informed their service is according
to spec (and perhaps suggesting the subscriber try BA's
service)?  Where's the regulation of this monopoly? I
must be missing something, Doug.