Thanks, Ken. There is certainly no shortage of such articles in the press these days. It's getting somewhat tedious going through them all hoping that some of them will offer a glimmer of new information. More often than not, it's more of the same. It's as though evey publication has its quota of dsl-cable articles it needs to publish daily, weekly.
And the quality of those articles seems never to get better. Errors proliferate, uncontested, and readers are led into a new jargon of terms such as broadband, dcl, etc. Witness, from you referenced article in the upstream post:
"Cable vs. DCL: Which one will get you on the Internet faster?"
DCL, indeed.
>The major advantage of cable is not speed, but cost.<
I've given this idea some thought at times. How much of the cost issue is due to subsidies, where MSOs are betting on the come of e-commerce bounties, as a means to offset present liabilities?
See my recent piece of devil's advocacy over in the ATHM thread, where I've introduced some controversial ideas surrounding this subject. I would be interested in hearing your views, and the views of others here in the LM, on the points which I've raised there.
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