That's well below the wholesale pricing from BellSouth to NSPs. This is what FCC ruling on DSL line sharing brings.
This is a serious blow to any ISP who has bought wholesale access from any AT&T/BellSouth/SBC company. How is an ISP supposed to compete with a $24.99 price when they are charged $34.50ish for a raw 3.0Mbps circuit before adding in Support/Email/Bandwidth?
This is a lets see who can survive with deep pockets. Well when you get your pockets filled with the USF it isn't hard to wait out your competition.
Just remember when your bitching about duopoly. Who creates them? The cowsumer who flocks blindly to cheep prices. This will end up being Coke vs. Pepsi. Coke and Pepsi run little specials now and then but they keep their pricing equal. Do you really think in the last few years the costs of producing either coke or Pepsi have really gone up %50? No. It's a slow cat and mouse game that makes both sides more and more money.
Do you really think in the last few years the costs of producing either coke or Pepsi have really gone up %50?
I still pay 99 cents for a 2-litre of Coke, just like I did fifteen years ago. Don't know what you're on about. -- What's certain about Darwinism is that it would take less time for (1) a single-celled organism to evolve into a human being through mutation and natural selection than for (2) Darwinists to admit they have no proof of (1) - Ann Coulter
