davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
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| reply to ronpin
Re: History of the World: Part I
Basically just the city of Dallas and most of Dallas County (which is a huge swath of land) is SBC territory. Most of the burbs are Verizon. There are a couple tiny spots where SBC is actually a CLEC in Verizon territory (Austin Ranch for example) and viceaversa.
And if you're in the burbs and don't have FIOS, you're screwed. B/c all the Verizon territory here used to be GTE. Verizon has been steadily upgrading the crap that GTE left them holding, but there are still quite a few COs that have no DSL and many that have DSL are still doing DSL over frame relay instead of ATM. For those who never dealt with DSL over frame relay in GTE territory... the normal package is 768x128. And you could pay the big money and get 1.5x256. Only the COs that have been upgraded to ATM can get Verizon's current specials and decent speed.
Aside from the fact that Keller is in Verizon HQ's backyard, one of the major reasons they were the first test install for FIOS was that what GTE had left there was mostly installed during the recession of the 80's and was pure crap. Putting FIOS there not only made sense demographically and made them look pretty, it also got them out of maintaining a big copper mess forever.
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