nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| so what? good for covad, but so what? They are struggling to provide a replacement for POTS while the world moves on towards VOIP (including the ILECs). As long as their service is POTS, it will have all the taxes and fees associated with POTS and thus not competitive with VOIP.
Another atta boy to COVAD for some "facilities based" competition; that's what Michael P. loves. Another so what. Cable is moving to docsis 2 and the ILECs are doing FTTP or FTTC, while COVAD is deploying regular DSL technology. They'll probably be OK until fiber shows up, at which time they will be blown out of the business (unless they can sell DSL for $10/mo and make a profit).
As for the wireless stuff, most articles that mention a time frame are talking at least 5 years before it's widespread, if then.
Meet the new monopolies, same as the old monopolies and don't expect any real competition from COVAD or anyone else.
Number 13 in the world and dropping; thanks Michael. |
