[geeks] Cable vs. DSL debate

[Ken Hansen]

The discount to resellers is not nearly as large as you seem to think -
first, my DSL service costs only $40/mo(cheapest they offer), and they
wholesale the account for an amount close to that. Like the "Change Store"
on the old Saturday Night Live sketch, DSL resellers plan on "making it up
on *volume*" ;^)

Also, a Verizon T1 is (I think) $1,500/mo...

WRT mis-management vs. ILEC fucking with them, what's the difference?
Neither is going to change anytime soon... ;^)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Sharp" <jsharp at psychoses.org>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Cable vs. DSL debate


> I wonder how many of these financial problems come from the typical
> mismanagement of suits...and how much of it comes from the LEC fucking the
> DSL provider around.
>
> I would imagine that Verizon would much rather sell you their own DSL for
> $70/mo or a T1 for $600/mo....instead of selling that same copper to Covad
> or Northpoint for $20/mo who then sells DSL service for $70/mo.  So
> Verizon jerks the DSL provider around putting the circuit in until the
> customer cancels.
>
>
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