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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (29226)	9/7/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Actually you are wrong again Rtev but this does not surprise me. No, John. I'm not wrong, but it doesn't surprise me that you would mistakenly think so, once again. Here, for instance, is an article that talks about AOL's slow-go process with their DSL agreements. AOL isn't complaining about the lack of lines from their telco partners: news.com Presently there is a T1 Cabinet less than a mile away from me... Fine. And that, as you would know if you'd investigate a bit, is the problem. The "T1 Cabinet" probably indicates that you are served by a DLC that makes it very expensive to serve the neighborhood with DSL. If you're more interested in finding out what's really happening, read the link in this message: #reply-11170950. Are the telephone companies going fast enough? Probably not. But I hardly think it's unreasonable for them to roll out the service first in neighborhoods where it can be most efficiently deployed. And note that this is one area in which they will be caught by competitors if they don't roll out the service as fast as possible. Covad, for instance, has said that their network will be available to 40% of homes and businesses by the end of next year: siliconinvestor.com As a number of articles have pointed out, the Bells started out slowly on DSL: news.com but they've been growing quickly: dailynews.yahoo.com