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" From: Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 <patrick at zill.net>
" 
" On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 08:02, Lionel Peterson wrote:
" > Ultimately, it will be a good thing for DSL and Cable data service
" > deployment - their investment won't support their competitors
" > efforts. Telcos today have to make their network elements available
" > *at a discount* to their competitors, at a price set by the ruling
" > PUC/state regulatory authority...
" 
" Thing is, the tariff rates are still high enough that in most cases
" the telco makes obscene amounts of money.... case in point, T1 fees,
" even at the cheapest I have ever heard them being ($110 per month for
" some mammoth deal that UUnet put together) are still what, 7 times
" the amount charged for the same copper as a voice line?
" 
" Get this:  almost all "T1" lines are now provisioned with SDSL
" equipment ... so the same line that carries Verizon's $29.95 per
" month DSL service is the same one that they get to charge $599+ per
" month for when it is provisioned as a T1.

yupper.

case in point: a few years ago verizon was whining to our state
regulators about how painfully expensive and unprofitable it was to
provide the mandated access to competitors for their local loops.  but
at the same time, they were boasting to stockholders that their
wireline business had a 50% profit margin.  hell, they're still
charging us for touch-tone service...
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