On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> All this talk about the PSC makes me wonder if anyone has ever succesfully
> gotten (without throwing lots of money at them) a PSC to pay them any
> attention?
I have, but I had a friend on the PSC, so that probably had something to
do with it.
The problem was years ago, in a semi-rural area, that my POTS line was on
a SLC-96 phone switch. For those unfamiliar, a SLC-96 is a modified ESS
which uses lossy compression to fit 96 conversations (as opposed to 24)
onto a T1. The net result was that my 14.4k modem (which I had just spent
$150 on!) wouldn't work any faster than 2400. Bell Atlantic (then New
York Telephone, a sub of Nynex) told me they guaranteed their lines for
9600, not 14,400, but wouldn't listen when I told them that I couldn't
even get 9600 out of them.
Fortunately, this friend of mine who worked at the PSC lived in the same
area and had the same problem.... and was running a BBS on those two
lines. The problem got fixed for both of us. The rest of the town
remained on the SLC.
That was six years ago. My, how times have changed.
>
> -Jim P.
>
>
> --- "I. M." ">morrigu_irm@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks you. Hadn't thought about it that way. You DO
> > have a point.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- ">bwentdg@pipeline.com wrote:
> > > Just a thought.
> > > Cable companies SUCK and are un-regulated.
> > > The phone company MAY suck, but is regulated, you
> > > can complain to the PSC.
> > > Hmm
> > > Sounds like phone compnay to me.
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
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