Re: Telcos lay down lines....

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cmaenginsb Premium,MVM join:2001-03-19 Palmdale, CA	reply to Plldwnyrpnts Re: Telcos lay down lines.... While the Baby Bells have to share their lines, it's not like it's free. It's not like it costs them anything. Understand that they are able to charge a fee to anyone using their lines to recover their costs. So it doesn't cost them anything. What it does cost is their profit because by sharing that line means that someone else is making money on it and not them. Not only is it a huge expense to create create a large network, think of the excess cabling etc. I have long said that the company who is maintaining the facilities should operate independantly of the company providing services. As to higher speeds from this, nope this will make it worse. In areas where there isn't competition expect pricing to go up and speeds remain the same. The only thing that will drive DSL speeds up in certain areas is cable, as cable increases in speeds DSL will do the same to match it. After all if it wasn't for cable internet we'd probably all still be on 56k modems.
cmaenginsb Premium,MVM join:2001-03-19 Palmdale, CA	to forum · permalink · · 2005-08-05 11:40:30 ·
rf_engineer join:2003-08-04 USA	said by cmaenginsb : What it does cost is their profit because by sharing that line means that someone else is making money on it and not them. Not necessarily. It's like acquiring a wholesale customer. The costs of acquiring an equal number of retail customers isn't there (i.e. advertising, salespeople, etc.) Of course I guess these deals require a lot of attorneys, so maybe it is a wash...
rf_engineer join:2003-08-04 USA	to forum · permalink · · 2005-08-05 11:46:00 ·


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