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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (21464)1/17/2002 6:24:00 AM
From: Steve Lee  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
"At home it costs me just short of $100/month. It is worth every penny."

It certainly is. However, I suspect that if you worked out how much the network costs to build and maintain, and divide that by the number of subscribers, the answer is more than $100/mth.

So where does the extra money come from? It comes from shareholders of telcos who have been kind enough to spend their money on depreciating shares so that people can have cheap net access.

What happens when these shareholders have all wised up? Answer, the networks go to pot and you start seeing < 20kbps throughput.

Then what? Most providers go bankrupt, the few that are left have to up prices - a lot - and the dream of ubiquitous broadband dies.

Any ideas for a 56k modem manufacturer to invest in <vbg>?
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