Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1777 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen said the following on 09/11/2010 09:06 AM:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> > There is a big telephone company (Telefonica) that once was a
> > monopoly. It had to open up for new, smaller, telcos, then open again
> > for ISPs. It is funny that you can contract from a few different ISP
> > providers, when the copper pair is still going to the same exchange as
> > has been for fifty years. I assume they have inside separate racks for
> > each new company where they do the splitting. If they do it all... A
> > nightmare, I have been told, by friends working there. The situation
> > in many countries has to be very similar, we haven't invented the
> > technology ;-) 
>
> It sounds exactly like how it's done elsewhere - Switzerland, Germany,
> Britain.  I doubt if they have separate equipment in the exchanges,
> it's not necessary.

Its amazing what the equipment manufacturers can do with software.
If you pay the licence fees.

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or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
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