Thanks for the trip back in time, Mike. Kinda like back to the future, in a way, as you point out. BTW, I ventured a guess, and accurately recognized, Ray's writing immediately (although it could have been Tim McC or several others at the time, like George Hawley or even Tom Eames to whom Ray was replying in your linked post).
Ray, in case you know him and were wondering, was doing well after leaving PacBell the last time I spoke to him about a year ago. His not being here to contribute to these discussions in an ongoing manner, however, is felt as a loss.
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While I would agree with you that today things are still iffy to some extent, I think that there have been enough rollout commencements and deployments (even if they are in their formative stages), to ensure that we can now regard the gates as at least openning up, if not fully opened at this point, with regard to DSL deployments.
One of the events, IMO, that has taken some of the steam and the hot topickry out of this sector was the initial award by the Joint Procurement Council (the four RBOCs awarding their RFP) to ALA for the first large purchasing agreement. I believe that this defused a lot of starter activity in several of the larger serving territories that could have been used as battlegrounds by some of the other DSL players.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
