User0101
Premium
join:2002-12-12
S-ZZ9-PZA
clubs: 
| Monster? Exactly How's That?
It's hard for me to blindly believe this to be the case when in my own Home Town we cant get a DSL product rolled out for a distance of more than 3 miles from the CO.
And this isn't exactly a small or rural town. We've been promised this product city-wide years ago directly by SBC/Ameritech and they haven't exactly followed through.
In the meantime, all DSL Authorized Resellers are biting the dust with this product because of undercutting prices by the CO's and slow rollout of product.
DSL is a quick fad means to an ends that will be replaced and shown to be unreliable for the cost in years to come. Whether you like the service or not these fact cant be ignored. Stick that in your pipe FCC!
/rant
ItamaeChef |
|
LBDSL
Lightning Bolt
VIP
join:2002-01-07
Auburn Hills, MI
| I know your frustration. DSL technology as it stands today is limited by the distance. this will change with time. I grew up in MI, and spent many summers in Traverse City, and I know this would be a great area, to provide DSL city wide, and not just near the CO(s)
It will come with time.
--
Lightning Bolt Technologies | DSL | Web Design | Web Hosting |
|
Rothan Tik
Premium
join:2000-11-07
Danvers, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Part of Japan's aggressive deployments came in part because of their bleeding-edge technology base. The other fact being the dense population of Japan. Lot of people living there in small areas...just about no "open land" so of course things will be deployed faster because it's shorter distances.
The end all to any distance problems is fiber plain and simple. Unfortunately in this country, an aging telco system and other legal hurdles prevents companies from upgrading their systems in a more economical/faster fashion.
--
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. |
|
Ratso
@comcast.net
| Have you ever even been to Japan? Granted, it's the size of California, but that's far from small. There are vast amounts of "open land". Yet the mountain villages and small towns STILL have broadband available at every other pay phone. The reason they were able to deploy it so fast is that the phone co's are making a killing over there. Phone service is by far one of the most complicated scams in that country. |
|
