Re: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage? - Cause and Explanation

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 01:05 -0500, -ray wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > > Besides, you need the actual copper pair coming into your house. Not
> > > easy to do if you don't have phone service.
> >
> > The Two Pair go into *everyone's* house.[1] They may not be hot,
> > but they are there.
>
> True, but it costs money to maintain the cable plant that provides copper
> to every house. Bell claims the maintenance fee is built into your phone
> bill. If/when you can order naked dsl with no voice from Bellsouth, they
> still intend to collect this maintenance fee. I wouldn't be surprised if
> naked DSL costs $10-$15 more than DSL bundled w/voice.

I have no doubt about that. The maintenance fee is also not rele-
vant to whether or not "the actual copper pair com(es) into your
house".

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