Donald Neal wrote:
Let's suppose that right now you have n customers attached to a Telecom DSLAM.
Zap! Regulate! Unbundling takes place.
iCuddle, Nazgulon and maybe other ISP's to a total of m ISP's all install their own DSLAM's in the exchange building and all build redundant access networks from there back to a redundant core. For some values of "redundant". Suppose all are equally successful at attracting customers. Then a single failure can affect no more than n/m customers as opposed to n previously.
But more parts for a given MTBF means more failures. The availability of service to any single end user only improves at the point at which something is built which is _more_ reliable than what was there before.
Dear Donald, I think it's totally unfair of you to insert logic into this discussion Cheers mark