The Death Of Line Sharing... Leads To The Rise Of Unintended Consequences
from the that-didn't-take-long-at-all dept
As the courts and the FCC have basically killed off any mandated line sharing by the big telcos and cable companies, the firms that lived off line sharing knew they were in trouble. While some thought the new rules would be the near immediate death of some of these providers, others (including the FCC) hoped that it would spur them to look into alternative technologies, such as wireless. It didn't take long at all for that to happen. Yesterday we pointed out that Earthlink is actively trying to push into the muni-WiFi space and today comes the news that Covad is buying a fixed wireless ISP -- coming just days after it was rumored that they're going to launch a fixed wireless solution in San Francisco. While it remains to be seen if these companies will really be able to make these wide area wireless solutions work on a widespread basis (and there are some big challenges there), it's amusing to think that they're quickly becoming thorns in the side of incumbent telcos. It was the incumbents, after all, who fought so hard to end the line sharing rules -- and the end result is they've potentially turned their partners into much more threatening competitors.
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Don't understand what I mean? LEARN. Start your research in the late 1960s and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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Beware Earthlink
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Sky Dayton has nothing to do with the company and has not for years. and who cares what he does anyway?
Should we care about anyone's "religion"? I'm not religious and I just do not care.
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Frankly, I don't see what the stance is of this blurb's author. Are you chastizing the telcoms for fighting to have their property rights recognized?
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Those are facts.
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Hey, send me your name and let me start a website to tell the world what a dolt you are...
sheesh, who pissed in my wheaties this morning...
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Opinions like that are the reason Americans are in so much trouble today in the rest of the world! Ignorance is bliss!
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Alistar Crowley. It's stranger than fiction and bares the roots of scientology- which is science fiction. Really, Google Jack Parsons and enjoy.
That said, any relationship between one of Earthlink's founders and scientology wouldn't stop me from using it's services.
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