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To: JW@KSC who wrote (31272)	6/5/2000 2:07:00 PM
From: riposte	Respond to of 31386

DSL Extortion Thrives CrossTalk By operator NO. 9, Inter@ctive Week May 24, 2000 1:13 PM PT URL: zdnet.com For those of you forced to pay your Digital Subscriber Line provider $295 for a DSL modem, James Steenbergen, newly named chairman at voice and data convergence equipment provider Integral Access and former CEO at DSL equipment maker Amati Communications, shares this nugget: "In general, today, the total cost of the materials for an ADSL 'Asymmetric DSL' modem is probably less than $30. And that's the total cost: the boards, the chips and the miscellaneous components. Whereas back in 1994, it was probably $3,000." Perhaps the problem is local exchange carriers still think it's 1994.