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| said by fAcEtIOUs:said by BF69: Sorry those companies still have to PAY Verizon to use thier lines. Verizon isn't out anything. Verizon is out something when forced to resell at a price below their costs. In effect, gov't is mandating that Verizon SUBSIDIZE their competitors. That's a complete myth. Their wholesale products (ISP buys backhaul into their ATM network, sells same product but with own IP, support, ancillary services) cost MORE wholesale than their loss-leader retail packages.
Their tariffed items like line-share or "naked" ADSL/SDSL are priced near the retail of buying full DSL service from them, plus they make money on CO co-location and power (figure near 5 figures for a single rack in a CO).
These generate more revenue per-line than their own retail products.
Note that they never produce any numbers when they make statements like yours that they "lose money" on wholesale stuff - that's probably true in the UNE-P stuff, but NOT for DSL. |
