Covad Standalone ADSL2+: June 1? > Just checked-Not cheap! AT&T will do "1.5 to 3.0" for $25/mo

Just checked-Not cheap! AT&T will do "1.5 to 3.0" for $25/mo

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I wonder what options san francisco has now in the inner city for broadband for the nicest sections.

In Queens where I am in NYC in the building Im moving to:

It will have Covad 15000/1000 available (Loop length is under 2k feet), it has RCN fiber optics to the building, coaxial RG6UQ to the apartments over DOCSIS, Time Warner Cable Fiber to right across the street of the building to a narrow segment, and also what looks like a node or amp in the back of the building which is shared which was from before they put in the new node last year.

Due to coincidence, AT&T fiber optics is found in the manhole by the corner of the building since a commercial establishment in the rear uses them but there is no AT&T fiber in the residential building.

Having 15000/1000 over ADSL2+ available makes a compelling broadband choice. Tripleplay is NOT needed because the building has FREE CATV from one of the providers and one can choose ANY broadband and phone options they want (VoIP, doubleplay of internet/phone, etc....) from any carrier they want.

The question is what the price of 15000/1000 service would be. Covad requires 12 mth contracts. RCN and Time Warner don't require any contracts. Verizon DSL is too slow and too pricey and FIOS is NOT available yet to this location and supposedly FIOS construction was halted for this area. Not sure what is going on with FIOS and when/if it will become available here.

Charlie Hoffman unlike Parsons believes strongly in Web 2.0. But the problem with Covad, is that it still wants to concentrate on Copper with lower costs rather than finding a long term business model which helps to deploy fiber optics for residential last mile.

So essentially we have 3 REAL competitors for broadband with their own distinct last mile pipe (POTS, and 2 different CATV/Fiber optics based systems).

Still questionable if the 4th will come in (Verizon FIOS). I dont see it happening for 2007 however. Covad's introduction of 15/1 service seems to indicate that for the inner cities, FIOS wont be here for awhile yet and it still has life because Earthlink/Covad introduced 8/1 LPV service, which now evolved into a 15/1 service directly from Covad.

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It is highly unlikely that AT&T will supply a dedicated (no POTS required) business class ADSL circuit with an SLA for $25.00 per month (although perhaps the former SBC prices in San Francisco are better than here in former BellSouth country).

Here in former BellSouth country, a 1.5Mbps/256Kbps business class ADSL circuit goes for $79.95 per month, and a 3.0Mbps/384Kbps business class ADSL circuit goes for $89.95 per month. Those are line share DSL circuits and also require you to have a business class POTS line. When I had a BellSouth POTS business line it cost me $99.00 per month. I did not feel like jumping through the hoops required on the web site to find the current pricing for a business POTS line, but I doubt it is less than that.

For me, a Covad dedicated ADSL circuit combined with Vonage is a really good bargain, and it has also proven to be more reliable than the BellSouth POTS/ADSL service that it replaced.
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