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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME
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To: Silver_Bullet who wrote (8891)6/30/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Rande Is  Read Replies (2) of 57584
 
Friendly. . .the cable companies are still spending big bucks stringing digital cable throughout neighborhoods around America. . . just went by here 6 months ago.

Then beginning this summer, cable companies will be hooking up set-top boxes wherever they can. As for xDSL, that is not something that will be so widely distributed. The nodes or switching networks in each and every little town across the country are only rated to about 33k. Even 56k is pushing them to the max. And the local phone companies are not about to spend the big bucks needed to upgrade them.

xDSL is expected to be offered to limited areas. . . and can run on regular POTS phone lines. . . but only those where the local phone company already has high-bandwidth switching networks.

Likewise, microwave [wireless] is aimed at concentrated areas, like apartment complexes. There is no single broadband method that is well suited to all people in all areas of the country. And that is helping holding things up.

So don't be looking for DSL to be offered in mass any time in the near future. . . .frankly, I don't think it will get used nearly as much as some believe. . . . I have said many times. . .that I believe that digital fibre cable will be the leader by a long shot, then microwave oriented broadband wireless will take up the slack.

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