Thanks to the Supreme Court and the FCC, U.S. Telcos Are About to Reinvent Their DSL

[grantave]

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050811.html

By Robert X. Cringely

Last week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission again bowed to the interests of the big telephone companies, and ruled that those telcos have no obligation to provide other Internet Service Providers wholesale access to their DSL networks. While this might look like a death knell for Earthlink DSL, for example, and vindication for AOL's and MSN's decisions to drop their own DSL businesses, that isn't necessarily the case. What IS the case, however, is that the decision has as much to do with telephone service as broadband, and the telcos are positively gleeful. Whether we consumers should be gleeful, too, isn't yet clear, but the answer right now is, "Probably not."

 

[bwana]

Interesting article. One part interested as much as anything

Yet the bottom line for ADSL2 is simple: It costs no more to build and costs less to run, leading to significant overall cost savings for the telco. ADSL2 will run over lines that wouldn't work for original ADSL, it will run further over lines of any type, and the diagnostics mean fewer truck rolls, which cost real money.

In that case - Why arent we seeing ADSL2? Is telkom still intent on buying surplus outdated technologies (as they did with the big ISDN push in recent years)?

 

[ic]

That is interesting, I don't know much at all about ADSL2, but it sounds like another nail that ICASA can put in TelkoDemonopoly's 'hold the country back with 192kbps and charge as though it was 24Mbps with a 300GB/month cap' coffin...since ICASA's findings call for higher internationally comparable speeds, and if ADSL2 does actually offer lower operating costs, then all the more reason to push for it, yes...?

 

[Kei]

Earthlink is a Scientology front so they can die

 

[ic]

Earthlink is a Scientology front so they can die

Ummm, putty1 [variation of padawan], seriously who cares about Scientology...?

But, Kei, what can you tell me about ADSL2 WRT the possibility of reducing running costs for TelkoDemonopoly & hopefully giving us at least 2Mbits/s before the year 3010?

 

[gljackson]

But, Kei, what can you tell me about ADSL2 WRT the possibility of reducing running costs for TelkoDemonopoly & hopefully giving us at least 2Mbits/s before the year 3010?

"3010", you're being a bit optimistic arent you?