| RBOC broadband is vaporware Unless BS (bellsouth or Bullsh*t??) is willing to pull fibre in Lafayette now, then they should get out of the way.
RBOC broadband is the biggest bit of Vapourware since the new ducknukem.
anyway this clowns 2 cents worth |
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 gaboy5Premium
join:2003-02-13
31728 | Here is my own story about competition
When I first moved in 96 I became the one and only person to take advantage of the phone company's dsl line for 69.99
a month for 750 down and 100 up
4 years later the cable company started offering broadband for 49.99 for 1024 down and 512 up. Consequently my phone company lowered their price 44.99 and upped my speed.
2 years later the city runs it's own service for 29.99 (which I did switch to)1024 down and up. The city also offers a plan 20.99 that 256 down and 128 up while this is not enough for speed for most users here it is perfectly adequate for users who simply want e-mail and some general surfing and at the same price as dial up.
Of course the telco and other cable company have reduced prices and increased services to keep up and now I pay the city 24.99 and get speed of 1400-1900 down and around 600 up.
I LOVE COMPETITION |
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| reply to flushls
In the last issue of Telephony magazine, BellSouth is on record that they think deploying fiber is too risky, and that they bet that upgraded DSL(24 mgbs) will be fast enough.....by 2009! Jim said BellSouth paid for another study that said households would need 24-100 mgbs for household use.....by 2006!
The bottom line is the same, if we don't do it, it is not going to get done. |
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| reply to flushls
said by flushls:Unless BS (bellsouth or Bullsh*t??) is willing to pull fibre in Lafayette now, then they should get out of the way. RBOC broadband is the biggest bit of Vapourware since the new ducknukem. anyway this clowns 2 cents worth This is misleading. No one has claimed 100% market penetration of broadband. No one. And broadband IS in Lafayette, and so is Bellsouth broadband. Maybe you should tell all those ADSL users in Lafayette to cancel their broadband service to backup your post. LOL |
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| BS may have some DSL in Lafayette. I do not know last time I was in L.L. It was in 1983 I was drunk and I got the clap from some chick. (I think she was hot .....)
Anyway if the city is willing to fork up the capital and the constituents vote for it the do it if they vote it down then go too plan b. |
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