Re: SBC's Q4 Comments About Project Pronto
Thread- I was hoping for a replay of the CC but could not find it. But here's some info out of their press release directly related to Project Pronto:
"Data Services: Fourth-quarter data services revenues increased 44.0 percent to $1.6 billion. Growth was fueled by continued strong demand for high-speed data transport services and by rapid growth in SBC's data communications services, which include applications, network integration services and Internet services. To further accelerate data services growth, SBC is deploying Project Pronto, an initiative to transform its local network into a next-generation, high-speed Internet access platform. Project Pronto, designed to enable SBC to deliver Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) broadband service to more than 80 percent of its local telephone customers by the end of 2002, has already made good progress. SBC sold DSL service to 70,000 customers during the fourth quarter, and 169,000 for the full year. At the end of 1999, SBC had deployed nearly half of the 1,300 wire centers targeted by the project, and more than 10 million customer locations were DSL-capable. The company expects 16 million customer locations to be DSL-capable by year-end."
And this is out of a Reuters report concerning Q4 comments:
The company said Project Pronto, a $6 billion effort to deliver high-speed Internet services, was making ``good progress' toward its goal of reaching more than 80 percent of its local phone customers by the end of 2002.
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Does anyone know what a, "wire center," is? -MikeM(From Florida) |
