DSL is pretty much dead around here. Verizon takes down the copper lines to any house where it installs FiOS so there is no turning back. Not even to a regular pots line.

Verizon is not exactly a good company but the phone line system is on its last legs. DSL has been the only thing keeping them from being torn down for their copper.

The only arguement for a hard line system is resiliency in a time of crisis but even that is no longer true because all the switchboxes are now computers anyway. Besides you would always use long arrays of cat5 cable in emergencies requiring direct connection analog.

DSL is simply unable to keep up. You can't even effectively watch youtube at 360p on it anymore. But of course it will take a decade before its fully phased out because that is the only option for so many people.

I just knew the left couldn't keep Bush out of this for long... :up:

I don't have a problem with that ... so long as its passed by elected officials, and the law would be crystal clear.

Except that the deregulation DID happen under Bush and that is why this is happening.

Well it aint over. There is backroom manuvering going on right now on capitol hill.

I tried to find some news feeds on it but have come up empty so far but it basically boils down to the federal goverment 'purchasing' bandwidth.

I will keep my eyes open for a news story on it.