Re: SBC's Project Pronto and AFCI
"The Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications."
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Peter- A classic real life example is SBC's Project Pronto. As an investor in Advanced Fiber Communications(sym:AFCI) I was most disappointed to read(via the AFCI thread) that Project Pronto hasn't generated any revenues for AFCI even when SBC specifically mentioned AFCI as one of their primary vendors. Here's what SBC said on Nov 3, 1999:
To implement Project Pronto, SBC will work with six primary suppliers: Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc., Alcatel, Lucent Technologies, Newbridge Networks, Inc., Nortel Networks, and Siecor. "These suppliers share our commitment and vision to making our next-generation network a reality and making broadband readily available to all customers," said Steve Welch, SBC's President - Corporate and Administration Services. "These industry leaders will give us the state-of-the-art equipment and capabilities to create a network that is among the most sophisticated, efficient, flexible and scalable in the industry. SBC has the confidence that these suppliers will not only deliver the best technology available, but will meet the time and volume demands of our three-year network build-out."
I sure hope this wasn't just another incumbent putting out some nice PR. When I listened in on all the details of Project Pronto, I was totally impressed. I figured it was full steam ahead from that second on. I have to go and dig up what SBC is saying about why the delay in NGDLC deployments. -MikeM(From Florida) |
