Re: Verizon Plans to Offer "Naked DSL" on 4/5 of its Wirelines

"Verizon expects "that in the not-too-distant future that you will be

> able to get Verizon DSL without getting Verizon phone service," said > Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs and > communications. "It's a technological issue, it's not a marketing > issue."

Bull.

It's a marketing issue. It's a monopolistic big-telco-doing-whatever-they-want-to issue. There is no technological requirement for there to be a dialtone on the same line as DSL, and no, I'm not talking about SDSL, I'm talking about ADSL which usually must be bundled with POTS service.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It would be very interesting if SBC > decided to go the same way: DSL with no phone service requirements, > but it is very unlikely; they just can't get their act together to > accomplish that. PAT]

Heh. They'd love to do it. You could get DSL alone from SBC and they could do whatever they want to with no fear of regulatory repercussions -- because you can't complain to your state PUC about unregulated data services. (Well, you can, but they won't do anything.)

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