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Article #437Re: High Speed Internet over Fiber Optic...faster than DSL...
From: John A Johnson
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 02:32
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 02:32
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The entire high speed thing is sad. Right outside all suburban neighborhoods are those cute little light brown box's with fiber optic cable. BUT, running into the house is the standard 2 pair copper (1920's technology). IF the phone company would make the infrastructure investment and bury fiber into neighborhoods, our whole world would change. Cable TV would die. Dial up phones would die. We are still saddled by outdated technology protecting the over 50 crowd who is technically illiterate. The phone company spends millions sending out phone books with mice type phone numbers. Send every one a phone book on CD-ROM in the mail and make the old farts and technically illiterate request one. I can get on the Internet and search for a phone number in seconds. I throw the big old paper ones away. Bellsouth is way the hell out of date. We pay more for touch tone but how many have rotary phones? Less than 2 percent. Make them pay extra. Maintaining a rotary dial network is costly as hell. SAD!
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