Fwd: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] setting up a web-hosting company

[Bobby Sanders]

Sorry to be so late with this reply.  Been very busy.

--On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:41:45 -0500 (CDT), sysmail at glade.net said:

  s> Hmmm... Clearly a coincidence, because the PUC (properly
  s> pronounced 'puke')

LOL

  s> would not have had time to make the contact,
  s> SWBell wouldn't have been able to schedule the call, etc.

Not a coincidence. (The PUC investigator also called the next morning
to see if the problem had been corrected.) Not SWBell - Verizon and/or
Ionex.  The bull about "scheduling" goes out the window when the PUC
calls them.

  s> Remember, it's the PUC who says 2400 baud is enough on your POTS
  s> phone line.

  s> Also, I remember when I first started pricing leased lines, I
  s> gave up.  I called the phone company, and was quoted something
  s> like $1400 a month in line costs for a four-wire 56K (DS0)
  s> circuit, even if it just ran to my next door neighbor.  After
  s> getting a heads-up from a friend, I asked for pricing under FCC
  s> Tariff 73 - that dropped it to about $250 per month for a 40 mile
  s> run.

  s> So, if the PUC is such a consumer watchdog, why do they set
  s> prices so differently from the FCC?

Not claiming any credit for PUC as "watchdog," just saying that when
they are convinced of a violations of their regs, they move and so do
the violators.

  s> An inquiring mind, wanting to know,

Sorry I can't help there. :>)

Bobby