In the last couple of days I’ve seen these TV ads telling people that mega-mergers amongst the big telephony companies (SBC, Qwest, Bell South and another one that I cannot remember) were causing problems including “slowdown of broadband internet access and an increase in rates”.
They urge consumer action and give a website to visit. I suspect the ad is being played in more markets than just Chicago. I also suspect the organization that is putting the ads together is sponsored by some other mega-corp. (Possibly Time-Warner?). At any rate, I wanted to look at the site, but I lost the paper I wrote the website down on. Does anyone know what it is?
thanks.
absimia
What are the ads suggesting, that smaller independent telcos with adversarial interrelationships is better than one or two big companies who have full and complete layer one access over their entire footprint?
It is to laugh.
Go take a look at my pit thread to see what I think of the FCC for forcing the fast packet part of Verizon to become a seperate data affiliate. Troubles that used to take us 2, 3 or 4 hours to fis are now taking 2, 3 or 4 days because of all of the little independent organizations that we have to “hand-off” the trouble to since we are no longer one big happy family.
I have wanted to start a thread about the worthless stupid telecommunications act of 1996 but I suspect that ordinary citizens would not much care. I could probably fix 90% of most troubles in my first phone contact with my customers if the company hadn’t been splintered into a half dozen affiliates who spend most of the time pointing fingers at each other in the course of days & days of troubleshooting.
Whew. There, I feel better now.