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Post #84,619 by drewk 2/27/03 11:08:19 AM Reply	Alternative Find a home security company and cut a deal with them. Run a fat pipe into their headquarters. When someone wants an alarm system, have them pull a "dry pair". Yes, the security companies will pull copper to the home. Make appropriate connections at the home office. Presto, combination home security/ISP. Great thing is you don't even have to sell a combined service. You're basically piggy-backing on their installers. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #84,621 by jake123 2/27/03 11:19:25 AM Reply	ISTR that pulpit guy yakking about that some years back... --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #84,624 by drewk 2/27/03 11:41:18 AM Reply	Probably where I got the idea === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #84,643 by CRConrad 2/27/03 1:32:17 PM Reply	Only as I recall it, Cringley said... ...not that "security companies will pull copper to the home", but that in most locations they already have contracts (hopefully more or less iron-clad) with the "incumbent something something carrier" ("ILEC"), so the security company gets to lease those "dry pairs" at cost from the very local telco that would otherwise be impossible for anyone to compete with. (Not claiming to be one thousand percent certain that's what he said, but I do pride myself on a pretty good memory for shit I've read years ago.) [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #84,644 by drewk 2/27/03 1:41:06 PM Reply	Well ... Exactly what he [link\|http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html\|said] was: Of course the local telephone companies hate this whole idea because they want to sell you that T-1 line for $500-600 per month. That's why they will tell you dry pairs don't exist when they usually do exist. And that's why phone companies are trying to get rid of dry pairs as quickly as they can. ... All this dry pair stuff means that anyone who already has dry pairs -- LOTS of dry pairs -- suddenly has an asset they never knew had value. Quick like a bunny, buy-up that stodgy old burglar alarm company that's been limping along in your town for 50 years. They have a dry pair (often more than one) going to every building. Switch the dry pairs to digital, make the alarm service digital, too, then use the old alarm panel and all that excess bandwidth to offer both wired and wireless Internet access to the whole town. With the lowest circuit cost and more circuits than a regular ISP could ever afford, you'll soon be a broadband tycoon. It looks like alarm companies got permission to pull the copper before anyone had thought of building their own network from scratch, and the CLEC are trying desperately to make them go away. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #84,685 by CRConrad 2/27/03 5:21:08 PM Reply	Aah, kewl!

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