http://www.lizardking.biz/2007/11/dsl-research/ for keeping track of my digital experiments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:37:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.lizardking.biz/2007/11/dsl-research/comment-page-1/#comment-902 jzerbe Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:26:13 +0000 http://www.lizardking.biz/index.php/2007/11/27/dsl-research/#comment-902 the Cringely article is outdated. in Twin Cities essentially all of the telephone lines are controlled by Qwest. to become a <a href="http://www.qwest.com/wholesale/clecs/clec_index.html" rel="nofollow">Facility-Based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier with Qwest</a> you need to 1) purchase an <a href="http://www.qwest.com/wholesale/pcat/unloop.html" rel="nofollow">Unbundled Local Loop</a>, 2) have a box serving a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol" rel="nofollow">Point-to-Point protocol</a> daemon in <a href="http://www.qwest.com/wholesale/pcat/collocation.html" rel="nofollow">Qwest's overpriced collocation</a> facilities. pay some fees to the local gov agencies for 3) <a href="http://www.puc.state.mn.us/PUC/telecom/for-utilities/telecommunication-certification/index.html" rel="nofollow">Telecommunication Certification</a>. the Cringely article is outdated. in Twin Cities essentially all of the telephone lines are controlled by Qwest. to become a Facility-Based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier with Qwest you need to 1) purchase an Unbundled Local Loop, 2) have a box serving a Point-to-Point protocol daemon in Qwest’s overpriced collocation facilities. pay some fees to the local gov agencies for 3) Telecommunication Certification.

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