Mike,
You hit one of the key issues on the head when you said that you thought that perhaps the distance from the CO was too great. Line qualification, which means determining the distance from the CO, along with clearing the lines of impediments (if possible) are two of the huge challenges that stand before the ILECs in deploying the many versions of DSL. Before you run out and do all of your homework on the local CLECs, remember that they too operate over those same ILEC copper wires into your house. The local loop is indeed the greatest bottleneck to ubiquitous bandwidth that we have today! As much as I love to slam the ILECs (and I do!), it is not completely their fault that such a great technology as DSL is being held back. Line qualification is extremely time consuming and costly, therefore business customers get it before residential customers (especially those residential customers in older areas). But chin up, Mike, soon we'll all be communicating over DSL, wireless or some other neat new technology that can be limited by the Luddites at the ILEC. Verio, along with the other forward-looking providers, will no doubt bring this service to us bandwidth-hungry consumers.
Go VRIO, Go!
Regards,
Bill |
