Is Verizon Nuts?

I read with interest my colleagues post below. Verizon is known to have one of the best legal and regulatory teams around, but this is fraught with peril.

• Should the rules be changed upfront that will most likely delay the auction as another around of comment will have to be brought.
• Verizon has no guarantee that after those comments that the auction rules would be in their favor. It could end up much worse.

Were I Verizon I would bid as promulgated then do my dirty work on the back end. Maybe do the same BS that was done with ISDN by scaring the State regulatory agencies into concessions on the older technology to subsidize the newer. Or the bait and switch that AT&T is doing on their mandated $10 DSL as part of the merger. Which by the way last time I checked is nowhere on their website to order.

Personal Note: To our readers, I have been out the past three weeks on emergency surgery. Just getting back into the swing of things. I will be posting some on the Digital Conversion later this week. It’s lack of movement so far might have impacts on the deploy rate of the 700mhz band.