[ale] [OT] Fewer DSL providers?

[James P. Kinney III]

Nearly 3 years ago, Bellsouth noticed that Medione was roling out the
digital cable in my neighborhood. So BS got active and laid fiber. I
have a nice, green pole at the end of my driveway with fiber in it. And
BS won't sell me access to it. I have yet to find ANYONE inside BS that
knows anything about the fiber to the home program they advertised to me
when the put it in. They were talking about 10Mbit Internet access
(DROOL!) and now they don't talk at all.

Maybe they will sell it to Covad and that will give them "last mile"
access to my house. My SDSL service with Earthlink through Covad never
had a single hiccup. I wish I could afford it now. 

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:09, cfowler wrote:
> I'm not sure if I totally agree.  I'm allready paying extra for a solid pipe
> with the features I want.  If this move forces the others like Covad to invest
> in more equipment then maybe it will be good for us.  If the small providers
> offer services the BellSouth do not offer then it is possible they'll make it.
>  But they just have to fork out some more cash now in order to build up the
> infastructure for those new features.  Who knows maybe we'll get broadband
> like Korea.  I could use faster upload speeds.
> 
> 
> On 12/31/1969, "Geoffrey" <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> 
> >I posted about this earlier.  I agree, you will see the alternative isps
> >start to drop...
> >
> >Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> >>
> >> http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030220/telecoms_fcc_broadband_1.html
> >>
> >> According to this link from slashdot, the discussions that have been
> >> going on recently on the list about choosing dsl providers may all be
> >> moot.
> >>
> >>
> >> Calvin
> >>
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