Re: [Nolug] reasons for DSL's death

On Saturday 14 December 2002 3:23 am, Joey Kelly wrote:

> As an aside, the cable TV market, in addition to offering broadband,
> has gotten the OK to offer POTS (plain old telephone service), and
> Cox is now advertising that service here in Nola. One of my
> co-workers had that installed this week, actually. The upside of this
> is that by law they are required to maintain 99.9999 (you get the
> idea) uptime on their POTS service (since your 911 calls go through
> Cox), which means that your broadband connection is pretty much
> guaranteed to stay up 24/7 if you also have telephone service through
> Cox.

Not really, there's stil plenty that your broadband and phone service
don't have in common; just 'cause your cable phone service is up
doesn't mean your broadband internet will be at all.

-- 
Tim Kelley
tpk at 23rdward dot org
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