 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
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Re: Good...Break them up said by NormanS:said by IowaCowboy:Judge Greene found legal basis to break up AT&T and the Bell System. It's called the Sherman Act.
Which has what to do with forced sharing of infrastructure? Back before the 1984 Bell Divestiture (I was only 2 months old at the time) AT&T and Bell system had a monopoly on telephones owning every piece of infrastructure from the phone in your house, the inside wiring, every neighborhood pay phone to the long distance lines that connected the cities. Seems very similar to the way broadband ISPs are behaving today with their ability to snuff out competition and maintain high prices and low quality service. That changed with the telephone in 1984 when Judge Harrold Greene ordered the separation of local and long distance carriers and ordered AT&T to divest the local telephone operations. And part of that order is that the baby bells lease access to their lines at cost. Thanks to the bell divestiture, telephone service is dirt cheap. Had AT&T not been broken up, we'd still be paying an arm and a leg for long distance. Just hopefully it won't take 83 years to bring competition in broadband.  |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
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| So how much bandwidth on the copper was Bell's, and how much was the competitor's after the divestiture?
You can't share bandwidth with copper as you can with coax.
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| You indeed can. What they do (did) abroad is make the last mile copper accessible by any carrier that has equipment at the exchange. This allows anyone to install their DSLAMS and bridge to the copper line. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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| said by Telco:You indeed can. What they do (did) abroad is make the last mile copper accessible by any carrier that has equipment at the exchange. This allows anyone to install their DSLAMS and bridge to the copper line.
Only one "black box" at a time, near as I can tell. While AT&T owns the copper between the demarc on my premises and the CO, they do not own the hardware the copper serving my premises is tied to. Neither dial tone, nor DSL are shared with AT&T.
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