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| Dealing in crack, the broadband flavor This should become popular. Dial-up days usually resulted in people buying their own modems for a chance of 14400-53000 bits per second downstream operating speed. A single B-channel ISDN would cost a whole lot more.
Now, the introductions of digital-dialup, as I like to call it, will result in a much more stable connection with the added benefit of temptation. O yee of little faith as nothing is more finer than to tempt those to the broadband side of life.
Bellsouth is working on plans to offer the same thing to get people off of analog modems and onto a digital world to be tempted via a turbo button. Let the Bell tinker with you and your mind as it will lead to greater things. More speed for the customer (though, through temptation), and more revenue for the Bell through migrated service to real broadband.
Personally, a 64/64-Kbps offering for $20/month seems like a steal. Why would anyone want to stay on analog? A lot of those analog modems are software-based and about as efficient at reaching their maximum bandwidth as a donkey flying kites.
Of course, the temptation aspect in which a digital-dialup customer can hit a turbo button for X hours per month and get 1.5x256 (or better) for large file downloads can and will often result in customers upgrading further, probably first to DSL Lite, and then maybe onward to a traditional service offering.
Keep in mind, though, that the DSL numbers for the Bell will be good in reporting number of broadband customers on its quarterly results. Maybe this is the real intent of any Bell offering, but can you blame them? Personally, analog connectivity is just obsolete. | |
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join:2003-06-04
Berkeley, CA | That's a good business model. Set up a system for the DSLAM where users can get temporarily provisioned to higher speeds for a download, etc. and you'll hook people on it. Hell, I'd take that. Somewhere around 512kbit when I'm browsing the web, and then jump to the max speed the loop is capable of when I want to pull down some mp3s or isos.  If the base price of the service plus the charges for the amount of increased speed time I used would be lower than a connection that's always at the higher speed, I'd go for it.
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