| reply to Matisaro
Re: m00t point said by Matisaro:
As a realist I look at dsls crappy roll out and slow deployment and realize that a company is much less likely to spend money to upgrade a network it has to lease out to competition at firesale prices.
The problem is that the phone company was caught with their pants down.
Cable internet got a jump and was winning. The telcos HAD an opportunity to do it right the first time. What they did was slap something together real quick, barely test it, throw it out and claim it was a "quality" product. What consumers got was a shoddy ISP with an even more tenuous connection.
I have said time and time again, had the telcos done it right the first time, cable would be crying. No one would want Earthlink if the Telcos did a better job with the ISP side and even could roll it out. Instead, they took the profits and ran looking for short term gain instead of long term growth. Even the cable isp's can cut back services and still claim to be better than DSL in many places. |
