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join:2001-01-29
Bryant, AR
| You may be right, but there again.....
I'm not sure how many more green dots you can expect to see on this map in the future.
Unless that green dot is put there by an ILEC, who appears to be "public enemy number one" these days, then I wouldn't expect to see the numbers grow leaps and bounds.
The trend now days is to provide service only to the "MAJORITY" of customers in heavily populated areas. It's also ok if that service works right only a "MAJORITY" of the time.
I don't think you will see companies jumping head over heals to upgrade the Outside Plant Network in rural areas, in order to provide service to rural, sparsely populated areas.
The charge for the service is already too low. The cost of upgrading and maintaning the OSP network, to provide service in these rural areas will out weigh the profit, except maybe to the ILEC, who is already in these areas.
I couldn't understand why an ILEC would spend all the necessary money to upgrade his network, just so a CLEC could come in and use that network, to sell DSL to it's customer.
Since this service is de-regulated, companies will not be required to provide DSL in rural locations, as has been the opposite case with dial tone POTS service in the past.
So if the ILEC decides not to extend DSL into an area, I doubt very seriously anyone else will want to. |
