Information week item

Comcast Plans VoIP Service For Its 40 Million Subscribers

Powerful telephone companies are serving notice on the cable-TV industry that its stranglehold over television programming will be coming to an end.  In response, Comcast plans to counterattack using VoIP, and its strength in broadband cable is expected to serve the cable TV company well.

That’s all well and good, but the “Powerful telephone companies” need to perform a rectal-cranial extraction and figure out that ISDN is a cruel hoax (or joke) and that they won’t be able to compete unless they get off the dime and run fibre “the last mile.”  Here in Minnesota, this problem is exacerbated by what acccording to my switch servicer’s employees who used to work at Qwest, by the “worst copper they have ever seen.”  No wonder considering that the copper has been in the ground; how long?

I’ve been waiting for a fibre pipe to my home since at least 1987.  When is it going to happen?