[BC] FCC Inquiry on broadband survivability.

[Mark Earle]

Tom Taggart wrote:
> They've got to be kidding??? Right???
>
> Do these clowns have any idea on how most people get broadband?
>
>   
Well, DSL is now delivered by fiber, to the neighborhood. Then to copper 
from neighborhood box to home.

Neighborhood box has limited battery life, no genset. NO power = no DSL 
= no POTS either.

Ask folks in Houston, after IKE took conventional power away for 2 weeks 
in some areas.