They also save money by getting the customer off of a POTS circuit (those who had a second line) and onto a DSL circuit - which opens up POTS and overall bandwidth for the Telco. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn" <fertch at mninter.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] DSL woes > Bob Tanner wrote: > > For all of you with the DSL woes, has the switch from providers changed your > > pricing at all? > > > > If so, how (cheaper, more expensive)? > > > > I think the problem is that this national dsl providers are playing the pricing > > game against cable and they are loosing. Cable has the whole revenue model from > > the TV service, so IP stuff is just frosting. > > > > Wouldn't the same then be true for the telecommunications giants like > Qwest, Verizon, and the other major phone companies? They've already > got the medium laid and generally use the existing wires, so they're not > experiencing any major cost jumps there. And their major revenue is > from phone services? > > Besides, when a phone company has the gov't granted authority for a > monopoly in a certain area, and the phone company in turn takes 6 weeks > to do dsl setup on a competitor's subscriber where they can do it in two > weeks to the neighbor because he's going through them says that they're > choking out the competition themselves. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >