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Raymond D. Mereniuk (Raymond@fbn.bc.ca)
Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:38:38 -0800
On 17 Mar 2001, at 10:13, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> -Person calls isp to get adsl
> -isp calls the Telus Advance Comms folks and is told there is no port avail
> -next coulple of week isp calls telus and gets same answer about ports
> -person calls telus direct and is told, no problem we have a port and can set
> you up in a few days
> -person then calls back isp who calls telus again and is told, sorry no ports
> available
This is actually normal and there is probably nothing funny going on.
Telus must, by CRTC regulation, provide a certain percentage of
their total ADSL ports in each CO to resellers. The resellers then
line-up for the reseller designated ports. I have no idea how the
reseller ports are distributed. I believe it may be on a first-come
first-serve basis but there is nothing to stop a reseller acquiring the
ports and inventorying for their customers or prospective customers
as long as they are willing to pay for them.
In your example there may be reseller ports in the particular CO but
which reseller has the ports. Maybe the resellers were more
successful in selling their ports than Telus.
Raymond D. Mereniuk
Raymond@fbn.bc.ca
History of a Telco, A Fairy Tale
http://www.fbn.bc.ca/telcohis.html
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