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Where’s My 45Mb Fiber Internet Connection?

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Did you know the major phone companies, Verizon and AT&T, owe your household and your business in excess of $2,000? It’s true. Once again, the government and big business have taken us to the cleaners.
Back in the early 1990’s, the Clinton-Gore administration made deals with the Bell companies–SBC (now AT&T), Verizon, BellSouth (now AT&T) and Quest–to wire 95 percent of all households, schools, libraries and government agencies, businesses and hospitals with fiber cable capable of at least 45Mb of Internet bandwidth and at least 500 television channels.

 

In exchange for this ambitioius undertaking, the phone companies were to receive “finacial incentives”, in the form of increased rates, decreased taxes, and several other concessions. However, by mid-2006, when 95 percent of homes and establishments in America were supposed to have fiber service, only 5 percent of the network was completed. While Verizon has finally begun in earnest deployment of its FIOS project, 2 years past the deadline, most areas of the country still do not have low-cost fiber optics Internet available.

 

A coil of fiber optics cable

A coil of fiber optics cable

 

Wikipedia has a detailed description of FIOS technology and how it works at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS#Technology

Besides, Verizon’s FIOS and AT&T’s Lightspeed products are not the technologies promised by the phone company monopolies–they are slower than promised and cannot deliver 500 channels.

By 2006, the phone companies had collected approximately $206 billion in excess profits and tax breaks–over $2,000 per household and business. And this says nothing of the trillions of dollars lost in technological innovation and economic growth squandered as the result of the country not having this technology available. Since these incentatives are still in place, the amount collected and squandered is substantially higher today and climbing.

Cover of book written by Bruce Kushnick, "$200 Billion Broadband Scandal"

Cover of book written by Bruce Kushnick,

Bruce Kushnick, a phone company insider, has written an excellent book on this subject, available at:

http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm

You can get an excellent synopsys of the book and the scandal on the California Internet Service Providers Association (CISPA) website at:

http://www.cispa.net/index.php?news_id=42&start=0&category_id=2&parent_id=2&arcyear=&arcmonth=

Also, as part of this agreement, the phone companies were supposed to provide open access to their fiber networks–ask the ISPs at CISPA how this is working out.

Where my fiber at!

Bill Harrel – www.williamharrel.com

Posted by William Harrel on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 10:36 pm 
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11 Responses to “Where’s My 45Mb Fiber Internet Connection?”
  1. William Harrel says:
    29/10/2008 at 21:46

    So, are you saying that FIOS has 500 TV channels. I wasn’t arguing that it didn’t provide any channels.

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  6. jasper says:
    17/04/2009 at 17:18

    Not to mention that Verizon cuts all the copper and cable connections going into your house while installing FIOS. This makes it somewhat more difficult to return to DSL or cable when you get thoroughly pissed off at their customer-no-service and want to go back.

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