It's statements like this that make me nervus as hell.
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"Cable has a wonderful head start here," said Buck Gee, a vice president at Com21, a cable modem producer based in Milpitas, Calif. "Cable Internet is real right now. DSL is not. There will be 500,000 cable modem subscribers this year, and less than 20,000 on DSL. I'm honestly not sure who will win this fight, because the telcos are capable. But they are slow getting started." "Sure, there are problems," shore.net's Gray countered. "But sometimes I wonder whether the problems revolve around policy and regulation rather than the technology itself. Cable modems are available through cable companies, which are treated very differently in a regulatory view from telephone companies." |
