Telecom start-ups take on Baby Bells with speed
....." They can't just lay
there and play dead....."
......" It's the land rush now."
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......"This could be a threat to traditional telcos because the
start-ups are essentially
offering twice the bandwidth at half the
price," said John Armstrong, an analyst with
Dataquest. "The phone companies will have to
respond to this. They can't just lay
there and play dead."
.........For example, a phone company that offers a T3 connection,
which runs at 45
megabits per second (mbps), typically
charges between $3,500 to $15,000 a month.
But the new start-ups charge between about $1,000 to $3,000 a
month for a 100-mbps connection, said Tom
Jenkins, an analyst at telecommunications consulting firm
TeleChoice.
"These guys have a good shot at succeeding," Jenkins
said. "It's the land rush now. ....... |
