on 1-30-2009 5:20 AM jkinz@xxxxxxxx spake the following: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:45:11AM +0000, Michael Simpson wrote: >> now we just need to work out how to get BT to replace the rotten >> copper in the POTS system -used to get 1.4Mbs, now getting a flaky >> 300Kbs down (yet 800 up!) and BT's response was to decrease the "fault >> report level". > > Utilities here in Northeast USA are famous for not wanting to upgrade > infrastructure until they get a law passed/tariff changed that allows > them to assess the customers directly for the costs. > > One of the best upgrades Philadelphia ever got was when a fire inside a > tunnel took out almost all of the "wire" that connected that city to the > ROW. > > You may have to contact a local, nearly destitute contractor for some > "midnight backhoe service" ... (kidding, not a good idea.) > > There is an excellent book titled "The Power struggle" which goes > over the (colorful) history of how power utilities manipulate and > control their customers to increase their profits while > simultaneously making sure those same profits don't show up in > the accounting.. > > Its a very unequal struggle. the power companies hire full time > legal professionals to manipulate the utilities commissions and > the other side is populated by a people who have keep their day > job and have little money to spare on the same effort. (compared > to the millions the power companies will spend). > > The same dynamics apply to the telecom and cable utilities. > > But not to the highway system. That area has an entirely > different set of issues.. :-) > > JK I work for a privately held water utility, and I'm sure that we do the same thing. Since the public owns the infrastructure, they get to pay for it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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