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WEI is a bit like the the old phone system where you were not allowed to own your own phone and connect it to the network. Eventually the government decreed th
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
WEI is a bit like the the old phone system where you were not allowed to own your own phone and connect it to the network.
Eventually the government decreed that illegal.
- Avamander 3y agoThis is the most likely path we'll take, I suspect.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoTelephones came about gradually, but say the kind of phone and system roughly like a modern pots line, served up by Bell, started around 1930. Breakup of ma bell (roughly the same time you were allowed to own a phone) 1984 And even today I can't buy or connect an ONT of my own to the new fiber that Optimum installed a few weeks ago to replace my coax cable and cable modem that I did own (but did not fully control thanks to docsis), somehow. I am not actually hopeful.