Verizon (FiOS) (Off Topic?)

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 18, 2006, at 13:55, Kenny Donahue wrote:

> I'm sure it's all about the money.  I don't want to run a business 
> webserver.
> I just want a simple Apache server for pictures of family friends.

And even consumer-targeted OS's (e.g. Mac OS X) come with something 
called 'Personal Web Sharing' to do just that.

> *1. Can I host a Web page?
> *Verizon FiOS Internet Service consumer packages include 10 MB of 
> personal Web space.
> The consumer offers do not permit customers to host any type of 
> server, personal or commercial.

First, how nice of them to describe you 'a consumer'.  Just in case you 
were curious what their relationship with you was.   'Residential 
customers' would probably be too much for them to get their minds 
around.  At least it's honest.

But I digress - if you cannot run any type of server, they're banning 
FTP, X, SIP, all P2P apps, NTP, Instant Messengers, video conferencing 
- need we go on?  Who would want to buy that?

What this really comes down to is they don't want to buy transit for 
your outbound traffic.  That's all.  The point of FIOS isn't to give 
you a fast connection, it's to install an infrastructure that the FCC 
doesn't make them share, unlike the current copper telephony plant.  
They want to keep your traffic down as low as possible, but the 
marketing department has to do something to convince you to buy it.  So 
they sell it up to you on the potential merits and then tell you you 
can't do any of that in the fine print.

I was talking to an engineer on the project a couple months ago.  
Nashua is in progress, Manchester will be started in 2008, Concord a 
few years later, and the Upper Valley is on the 'when the copper rots 
out' list.

-Bill

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