fist5
join:2002-03-07
Effort, PA
| Tiger by the tail
Lets see, last DS3 I ordered and installed for a customer, 7mb with bursting to 10 [billing to match] was $7000 a month. Average T1 is about $1100 [don't be fooled by the $450 month T1's advertised, ask for the total recurring monthy cost, loopback charges and bandwidth access]. So, Joe Citizen gets a 45mb pipe [vdsl] and pays $50 a month, wonder how long the corps will stand for paying $50,000 per month for an OC3. not long I'll bet. 1.5mb dsl is about the slowest you can go, but what is the telco supposed to do with all those extra T's after small business's roll over into business DSL for 1/10 the cost. You have people, salesman, mangers, presidents who make residuals off all those T1 and larger lines that they have sold over the years and they are not going to give them up easily. Where I live in monroe county PA, the Poconos, they 'Verizon' upgraded all the phone systems to the lighwave or lightpath system, ATM fiber links between the CO's and where the MDF were, adding DSL is easy, just some hardware in the slic's and CO. But they are stalling, there are alot of isolated companies here that NEED high speed access and as a result have alot of T's and larger, make DSL available and then business dsl follows pretty quick, those T's will be dropped like the overpriced potatoes they have turned into, that is why the telcos don't want the competetion to be colocated, as soon as they turn on DSL other companies move in and provide better services. They are holding DSL as ransom to get that legislation passed so that they again have a lock on the services. Nope, I don't figure to see DSL here until some other technology that totally bypasses the telco and cable companies completely finally kicks them in their collective asses and has a direct effect on their wallets, or actually their stockholders wallets. Until then they have a tiger by the tail and are top heavy enough to hold on as long as they can. |
