>> Reality doesn't make sense to me...
> 
> It's called "bulk pricing".  Covad can buy telco service in bulk.  I 
> can't. :-)

Riiight... so why don't Qwest just match Covad's price [which obviously 
they can trivially do] and put Covad out of business?

>> Anyway, you get your DSL cheaper, but what if it breaks? If it's
>> actually a Qwest DSL line, presumably only Qwest can actually fix it if
>> it breaks. And that means that if it breaks, you have to spend 3 hours
>> on the phone to Covad to convince them that it's broken, and then they
>> have to spend 3 hours on the phone to Qwest, and then *maybe* somebody
>> will fix it?
> 
> That is a fair point.  Had a lightning strike here a few years ago (at 
> the Covad CO), and they couldn't track it down.  They blamed Qwest, and 
> Qwest blamed them.

Ah yes, the "it's nobody's fault" syndrome. ;-)

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