http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:47:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-867003 macdad614 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:50:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-867003 <p>What phone company? I really would like to see a graph of the number of customers each of the major phone companies has had over the past 10 years. I would bet that with the tremendous availability of cell phones, the decline in customers using wired service has been phenomenal.</p> What phone company? I really would like to see a graph of the number of customers each of the major phone companies has had over the past 10 years. I would bet that with the tremendous availability of cell phones, the decline in customers using wired service has been phenomenal.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866836 Richard Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:02:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866836 <p>I think you mean http://www.web-pass.com/, not http://www.webpass.com/.</p> I think you mean http://www.web-pass.com/, not http://www.webpass.com/.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866829 Roger Weeks Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:37:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866829 <p>Your link to webpass appears to go somewhere else entirely that is not an ethernet-based ISP...</p> Your link to webpass appears to go somewhere else entirely that is not an ethernet-based ISP…

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866824 JR Holmes Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:00:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866824 <p>You will want to correct the link to the Ethernet-based Internet provider. The provided link goes to a vending machine operator. You want www.web-pass.com.</p> You will want to correct the link to the Ethernet-based Internet provider. The provided link goes to a vending machine operator. You want http://www.web-pass.com.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866822 Jesse Kopelman Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:57:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866822 <p>I don't think anyone is stopping WebPass. More likely they don't have the resources to go after MDU customers, where the wiring can be expensive. Just look at cable. FCC put an end to exclusives there last year, but I have yet to see an apartment complex being served by multiple providers. Companies are in no hurry to overbuild. If you aren't already passed by the physical plant of multiple companies, these FCC rulings will do you no good.</p> I don’t think anyone is stopping WebPass. More likely they don’t have the resources to go after MDU customers, where the wiring can be expensive. Just look at cable. FCC put an end to exclusives there last year, but I have yet to see an apartment complex being served by multiple providers. Companies are in no hurry to overbuild. If you aren’t already passed by the physical plant of multiple companies, these FCC rulings will do you no good.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866815 Thomas Morf Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:28:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/03/21/fcc-gives-apartment-dwellers-freedom-to-choose-their-phone-company/#comment-866815 <p>In France, the the incumbent phone company, France Telecom, is required to leave some space for switches and pipes of competitors, whenever they hook up a new building or neighborhood. France has some of the lowest long-distance and broadband subscription rates in the world.</p> In France, the the incumbent phone company, France Telecom, is required to leave some space for switches and pipes of competitors, whenever they hook up a new building or neighborhood. France has some of the lowest long-distance and broadband subscription rates in the world.

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