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Long-extant problem (none / 0) (#10)
by CowboyinBRLA on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 02:45:38 PM PDT

This has been a long-extant problem in the telecommunications world, as the telcos fought to protect their local service turf. Public companies want to grow, to boost their stock price for the benefit of the stockholders (or at least the ones with millions in options). Problem is, people are abandoning land lines in droves, moving to cellular. (Naturally, the telcos are buying up cell companies in response). In addition, the cable companies and telcos used to have a sort of unwritten agreement that cable wouldn't try hard to market phone service if the telcos wouldn't try to break into TV. Now cable has the infrastructure to offer decent and cheap phone service, and it's going all out, but the telco networks can't handle TV without major upgrades. Meanwhile, the telcos have to protect their leased data line business, and a lot of companies are discovering paying $1500 a month for a T1 is silly when you can get symmetrical 6MB cable for a quarter of that, or asymmetrical even cheaper. I've had IDSL, ADSL, and SDSL in the past, and none of them offered anywhere near the quality or stability of my home cable connection, much less my office's cable-managed fiber optic connection. The telcos are trying to squeeze every last dime out of their dying networks before they're worthless, instead of spending the money to upgrade them to a competitive level. I say screw 'em.


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