Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Apr 19 17:47:39 UTC 2005


On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:08:51PM -0400, Andy Johnson wrote:
> Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > What possible technical issue could exist that to don't have to wire the 
> > dslam to a pots splitter?
> > 
> > Actually, even if they did wire it to a pots splitter, and there was no 
> > pots line present, it'd still work.
> 
> My speculation is that their billing/accounting system is based on a 
> POTs number, and since these customers will not need one, they will have 
> administrative errors managing accounts.

Their DSL OAM&P, at least in VerizonFL territory, is indeed tied to the
associated voice DN; they don't even do *ticket* numbers at the
consumer level: the tickets are tied to the DN as well.

> 	Since VZ is doing their FTTP rollout, I imagine they have been tying 
> new customers to Physical Addresses now instead, moving away from the 
> old POTS based system. Again, all speculation based on how I see the 
> DSL/FTTP order process taking place now.

And I've just heard from a customer for FTTP in Tampa that he loves the
speed (13/1.2 stable)... but they're PPPoE at the box.  <sigh>

Cheers,
-- jra
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