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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here

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To: yggdrasil who wrote (10550)2/25/2001 11:17:36 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
Hi yggdeasil,

>What does a household pay today for cable or EchoStar plus telephone line plus local plus LD plus ISP plus DSL?

Sold by the month (except LD)

>I have a vision like many others on SI, admittedly longer-term, of a broadband pipe that delivers all of the above with TV and Radio delivered streaming

Sold by the month

> and VoD on top

Pay-per-view not sold by the month

> and with as much as you can eat telephone calls anywhere thrown in at the same fixed rate?

Cricket sells unlimited local calls, but calls 'anywhere' will always be tariffed by governments.

>I think Mike A's figures are in the right ballpark.

I think $150 a month a household if mobile is included, $100 a month without mobile

> I don't think the solution is in technology

Nor do I, the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications of 1997 is being resisted mightily, but
reread this five years later:

wired.com

petere
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