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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (3463)4/27/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Doughboy  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
I have two possible reasons for the glacial movements by the ILECs:

1) That's how ILECs operate.

2) ILECs see DSL as pirating their own business, so they would rather figure out a way to block entry by data CLECs rather than compete with them. The recent FCC collocation rules basically puts the kibosh on the ILECs' efforts.

3) Some of them are placing their bets on DSL-Lite. I don't know the ins-and-outs of this, but I seem to recall that Southwest Bell made this their initiative into DSL.

I did note though that AT&T just announced their DSL stragegy (edit-oops just noticed that someone posted the release in the message before this one), which is to have 1200 POPS in place in the next year. I don't know whether AT&T is planning on provisioning the DSLs themselves or by using one of the date CLECS. I believe MCI WorldCom and Qwest use Rhythms and Covad to provision the DSLs.

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