Woah...

[feren]

I was reading through a couple of the listserves I'm on while I'm killing time here at work, and happened upon an e-mail from the NANOG list that contained a link to a rather interesting news article. After reading it, I really started to think the high-pressure competition here in the US is no match for this, unless you're a guy without a union card trying to work next to the Teamster's favorite bar.

There are days when I wish I could back an ILEC employee into a corner and beat him like a naughty puppy, but this is something else.

Comments

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooo. Engineering Fun! Now that's competition!

[feren.livejournal.com]

I just have to say, that LJ icon is great.

WOW!

[wolfbrotherjoe.livejournal.com]

It's like something out of a cyberpunk novel! I kept feeling like I was reading a Shadowrun sourcebook!

Re: WOW!

[feren.livejournal.com]

I found the part about the one telecommunications company crashing a car into the wall of the other's office to be really amazing. Then, as if that wasn't surreal enough, they took HOSTAGES? Holy crispy crap.

IMHO...

[yakko.livejournal.com]

This should happen in the USA.

Really. The greedy RBOCs may be more reasonable if the threat of their DCOs burning down each day was stark reality.

Sadly, this really -is- what it'll take to restore competition in the USA.

Re: IMHO...

[captain18.livejournal.com]

You know, one day over the winter we lost WAN service for the better part of the day. The story we got from Verizon (I think -- Verizon and Sprint both have their thumbs in the pie) was that a bum looking for shelter broke in to a switching station and started a small fire, which knocked out service.

Maybe that "bum" was secretly being paid by AT&T?

PS: "That's why I hate MCI..."