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Originally Posted by rsisk

Do they really have FIOS in North Korea?

They must; I finally got it on my street and my street is always the last place everyone gets to, so North Korea must have FiOS.

I can't believe I'm the first to quote Ernestine (Lily Tomlin):

"We don't care.
We don't have to.
We're the phone company."

And to conclude my trivia about our Telephone Overlords, I present "The President's Analyst", a 1960's satirical comedy spy spoof film starring James Coburn in the title role, who gets chased for the presidential secrets he has -- not by the bad guys or the good guys, but by The Phone Company.

This is going to be one of those things that will take years to shake out how The Real World deals with new technology, and how the powers-that-are resist change. Technology exploded when the AT&T breakup occured, but unfortunately it ended up with incompatable parallel equipment and "you can only use our wires by our rules".

Originally Posted by squirrel

I had to look up the word FiOS to see what it means.

All I could find was that they like to spell it "FiOS" and its a Gaelic word meaning knowledge. Fiber Optic Service? Fiber OpticS? Flannelcakes is an Obvious Standard?