[Hidden-tech] Try Crocker (instead of Verizon)!

[Aron Goldman]

I am not a very technical person, but my understanding is that Crocker 
is able to go to the right people immediately, as opposed to the 
experience one normally has with Verizon....

And to respond to another person's comments, increasingly Matt Crocker 
is deploying his own equipment: central office electronics but also 
fiber runs between springfield, noho, amherst, and greenfield. and as 
he acquires more customers he will continue building his physical plant 
with the explicit objective of making it out to us (you'd think we were 
at the highest heights of the himalayas).

Aron

On Apr 7, 2005, at 9:49 PM, Jim Ussailis wrote:

> I am puzzled...
>
> DSL comes over the phone lines. Verizon owns almost all the phone lines
> in W. MA.
>
> So, any other DSL service uses Verizon phone lines. I would also assume
> they also use the Verizon switching station, perhaps with their own 
> server.
>
> Then why can't Verizon service places the other guys can?
>
>
> Jim Ussailis
>
> jim at nationalwireless.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Aron Goldman wrote:
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>> I certainly can't say that speeds would be any different, but customer
>> service and repair times would be better with Crocker DSL. Crocker can
>> provide DSL anywhere Verizon can. Crocker is local, they care about
>> good service for the Valley and working to provide broadband where
>> Verizon refuses to (like here in 95% of Shutesbury and 100% of
>> Leverett). Matt Crocker is a wonderfully accessible guy.
>>
>> In addition to running a nonprofit org from my home
>> (www.policydevelopment.org), I am the chair of the official
>> Shutesbury-Leverett Broadband Committee (http://slbc.westernmass.us). 
>> I
>> also sit on the steering committee of the Pioneer Valley Connect
>> (www.pioneervalleyconnect.org). I have learned a lot about telecom
>> infrastructure in the Valley, and one key take away is that anything 
>> we
>> can do to support Crocker (and any alternatives to Verizon) is in all
>> of our best interests.
>>
>> Hope that sorta relates.
>>
>> Aron Goldman
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