Mass Market or Bust
An ADSL article in the October 1998 tele.com...
In about the middle of the article, Matt Totter, executive director of MigaBit Services at US West in Denver, says "the demand for ADSL is so strong that it will be a mass market and not a niche one".
Here's the first paragraph from the article:
Two years ago, ADSL promised to turn
copper into gold. With almost 100 companies
looking to strike it rich, what's the problem?
By Rachael King.
Rachael King is business editor for tele.com.
California, here we come again. One hundred fifty years ago it
was the gold in them thar hills that drove 100,000 spirited
American entrepreneurs to dream the impossible and act on
their dreams. Today it's the silicon in that thar valley spurring
waves of visionaries to hitch their wagons to new technologies
in hopes of vast wealth-many more fortune hunters than can
ever succeed. The California Gold Rush is an apt metaphor for
any number of new digital technologies today. Is ADSL one of
them? Plans abound for deploying the high-speed data service,
with some 50 equipment suppliers and 43 U.S. service
providers deploying ADSL to get more life out of plain old
copper wires. All that effort over the past three years,
however, has yielded only about 25,000 ADSL subscribers in
the United States today.
copper wires. All that effort over the past three years,
however, has yielded only about 25,000 ADSL subscribers in
the United States today.
FULL TEXT @
teledotcom.com |
