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 alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA | reply to ISurfTooMuch
Re: Telcos are their own worst enemy said by ISurfTooMuch:The reason telcos are losing DSL customers has less to do with cable and more to do with the telcos themselves. First, they still try to make you take a landline. Sure, you can order naked DSL, depending on the telco, but many seem to include it as an afterthought, as if everyone out there has a landline or wants one. Next, they push contracts. Few cable companies do this. Third, there are many areas that simply can't get DSL. If this were still 2001, I could understand that, but this is 2009, and there are many areas here--upscale areas--that simply can't get it, and AT&T isn't doing a damn thing about it. It's as if they just decided to stop expanding service around 2002 and never started again. Hell, there are some parts of the area that got U-verse last year, but most places still can't, despite the equipment already being in place. Okay, first you have to understand that DSL is an ageing almost obsolete technology. DSL relies on good Copper and that is more expensive these days. AT&T went with U-Verse that would use the existing Copper Infrastructure, which I feel was a mistake, and now AT&T is finding out the existing Copper is getting older in need of replacement. I think AT&T is thinking now that Fiber is the answer, but to turn a Big Ship like AT&T takes a lot of Time and Money! | |
| Don't get me wrong, I agree with you completely, but, back in 2002, BellSouth was still an independent telco, and I wasn't hearing of them doing FTTP or any sort of TV service besides a very limited rollout in Atlanta, I think. Still, DSL expansion ground to a halt, and that was that. A couple of years ago, when I was in the local AT&T store, they were desperately trying to get me to buy a landline and DSL, which I wasn't really interested in, but I went along and let them check, just to shut them up. Turns out there were no available ports in my CO, so I couldn't have gotten it even if I'd wanted to.
It's like they aren't even trying. | |
nathill
join:2004-05-03
Bloomington, IN | I live within the city limits of Bloomington, IN, about three miles from the court house square.
I can get 24K (not 64K, not even 32K) land line service from AT@T. No DSL available.
Thanks so much! | | |
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alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA | said by nathill:I live within the city limits of Bloomington, IN, about three miles from the court house square. I can get 24K (not 64K, not even 32K) land line service from AT@T. No DSL available. Thanks so much! Like I said to another Poster »I didn't leave DSL, DSL left me forget DSL and move on. If you don't have another source for High Speed Internet, talk to your Local Home Owners and find some options. | |
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