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To: Leroyt who wrote (190)	10/6/2000 2:58:29 PM
From: Michael Bakunin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 216

FWIW, like all the bells, SBC has to allow third parties to offer service. I have been very happy with my one-static-IP 784/392 SDSL through one of those third parties over SBC's copper in the Bay Area for $40/mo. -mb

To: Leroyt who wrote (190)	10/19/2000 12:29:49 AM
From: joarel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 216

Leroyt, From an investor's perspective, this is a strategy of supply and demand. If you would have ordered the DSL line in say October 1999, the $49/month basic DSL service would have supplied a static IP address because the demand wasn't there. If you would have been following SBC, you would have understood that the level of customer demand for DSL and the rollout of SBC's Project Pronto Initiative to expand DSL service throughout their 13 state territory with a goal to reach 1 million DSL lines by year's end. That static IP address you mentioned is a fixed address for as long as you maintain your DSL connection. You think SBC has enough static IP addresses to cover business users as well as residential users? The Internet is running out of IP addresses. IPv.4 can only accommodate so many Class A, B, C addressess then there exhausted. There has to be DHCP addressing to accommodate a user base of this size. Best of luck joarel~