Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Mon Dec 20 08:45:09 UTC 2010

  On 19/12/10 10:55 PM, George Bonser wrote:
>>>> There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of
>> all
>>>> the wires on the poles.
>>> Can you provide a link to a photo of this situation?
>> come to tokyo.  or hcmc.  or ...  it's an art form.
http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/beltran/2009/07/24/Tina_modotti_wires447x625.jpg

This is not the result of many different providers, it's the result of 
one provider stringing many lines to supply service.  I'm guessing this 
was before they figured out how to run trunk lines and then split out 
the calls from the trunk into individual lines closer to the end user's 
location - or how to bundle lines together, etc.  So each wire we see in 
that photo is a *single* wire running from the central office to one 
subscriber (or party line).
> India:
>
> http://pinkbunnyears.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/telephone-pole.jpg

Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is the monopoly operator in 
India.  That photo isn't due to a situation where there were numerous 
different providers, it's due to ONE provider with a monopoly, doing a 
half-assed job.

I checked the first and last links you posted, and neither of them had 
anything to do with the topic of "50 providers stringing lines to every 
house".  I'm not going to waste my time checking the rest of the links - 
especially since you can't even bother to properly format them so they 
don't break and they have to be pieced together to work.

jc