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Aww, there's a bajillion other hearings going on, so Senators could legitimately be other places... ([www.senate.gov])
Otherwise, it'd be awesome to see who showed up, and who couldn't care less about consumer issues. Tell us who shows, anyway...
Aww, there's a bajillion other hearings going on, so Senators could legitimately be other places... ([www.senate.gov])
Otherwise, it'd be awesome to see who showed up, and who couldn't care less about consumer issues. Tell us who shows, anyway...
People still use Real Player?
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Inouye is probably at the beach.
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@trecool95: Just late, apparently. LOL @ the suit and tie choices. Hope Carey doesn't fall asleep after a few minutes.
\"Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) gets to run the show.\"
Yikes! One of the more frightening sentences in the English language.
dear god, not ted stevens. He probably thinks the PSTN is a series of tubes.
Well, Stevens finally said \"truck\". Thankfully, it wasn't in reference to the Internet. He didn't mention if the truck mentioned had to drive through any tunnels or tubes.
I fail to see what is so crazy about this statement ?
further more his series of tubes comment was accurate, the internet is bundled fiber optical tubes with servers at the ends of various lenghts of fibr optics.
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Is there anywhere to find a transcript of this hearing, beyond the somewhat thin (though very informative - thx) recap above?
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Ah, the joys of LNP... [not!]
I work at a small telecomunications company that offers voice, video, and data. We have to port phone numbers every day (though, nowhere near the 13,000 that Charter deals with). Charter is right on the money when they say that porting problems cause mass chaos in regards to scheduling/installation. We are booked out at least a month for installations, so if the phone doesn't port correctly and on time it can be quite a problem for the customers.
Th funny thing is the part (according to your recap above, anyway) about small telecos \"slowing down\" the porting system. At least for us, it takes significantly longer to port a number from one of area's largest telecos, Comcast. Porting a number from Comcast takes us at least 12 business days. 12! What do they need to do for 12 whole days? And then sometimes they are late and it ends up taking longer. That's more than half of a month (and another bill for the customer from Comcast). No wonders the telecos oppose porting regulations. ;-)
I didn't realize the \"C\" in CSPAN stands for Consumerist.
I feel a bit bad for whomever is covering the proceedings.