On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, at 11:20am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had DSL when I lived in Santa Barbara a few years ago. Though Verizon > was not my ISP, they owned the residential lines in my area. This meant > that they provided the physical connection and my ISP provided the > Internet service ...
Yes. In New England, Verizon will always be the one provisioning the actual circuit (the pair of copper wires that goes from the CO to your house) [1]. When I say "existing line", I mean that the DSL signal is combined with the signal of a regular POTS line at the CO, and then split again at the subscriber end. When I say "dedicated circuit", I mean that the DSL company provisions a dry pair from the telco, and they attach their equipment to it at the CO. A "dry pair" is a circuit with no other service on it -- no phone number, no dial tone, no electric current. Footnotes --------- [1] There are still a few local telcos in a couple isolated areas. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
