HooperPremium
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Villanova, PA | The Cost of Dry Line DSL Why does naked dsl carry a higher monthly fee than line share service of the same speed? You have your own copper and there is no sharing profits with the ILEC, so why wouldn't it be cheaper? Especially now with covad soon being able to offer their own voice services from their DSLAM's, it makes no sense to gouge potential voice customers especially ones that won't need a new install!
The only justification I can see for the higher cost is a way to take more from the customer because of lost revenues on the installation. However, that is what contracts are for.
I am very interested in the service, but I just can't justify throwing out another $10 a month because I got rid of the phone line that cost me $10 a month.
It makes no sense to me.
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 LBDSLLightning BoltVIP
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Auburn Hills, MI | It comes down to the ILEC. On a line share product, we lease part (half) of the copper for DSL, and you the end user are paying for the other half via your voice bill.
One a dry line, the ILEC is getting no money from you, the end user, so they in turn charge us more per month for the full copper line.
If you are only paying $10/month for a dial tone, consider yourself very lucky, as most area's are $20+/month for a bare bones dial tone, so the $5-10/month difference between our line share and dry line, are very reasonable.
Brent
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HooperPremium
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Villanova, PA | said by LBDSL:
One a dry line, the ILEC is getting no money from you, the end user, so they in turn charge us more per month for the full copper line.
Thanks for the prompt reply Brent.
So why all this buzz about Covad being able to offer telephone service with the Nokia DSLAM card? If they still have to rent the copper from the ILEC it is a no win situation for them. They will always have to use the existing copper. They won't be able to compete on the voice front and they are essentially still line sharing. This just makes no sense. The BELL's didn't pay to lay the original copper, we as taxpayers did way back when. So they don't own it, the government does. The only part they actually own are the physical CO's. I can see how having to share their voice line with another ISP for DSL would be annoying if not costly, but with the new Nokia card or a dry copper line they are not reliant on the ILEC at all.
Essentially what your saying is that with line share the fees to the ILEC are cheaper, but if we run a separate pair to your house Independent of the ILEC you get hit with more of a charge? I am not buying this in the least bit. It doesn't make sense from an economic standpoint.
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LBDSLLightning BoltVIP
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Auburn Hills, MI | Unfortunately, not everything in the world makes sense, but that is the way it is. We charge more for our dry lines, verse our line share, because it cost us more.
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