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To: schrodingers_cat who wrote (123814)	4/18/2001 10:36:30 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

The trouble with broadband is that it is quite expensive and seems to lack a really compelling killer app. At one time I thought it would take off once it reached about 10% of internet households but now I am not so sure. Moore's law should bring the cost down over time, and the Bells will hopefully get better at installing it. It is not expensive around here for residential use. I believe it is about $50/month. A separate phone line and one's ISP monthly cost is only $10 less. Unless some really popular new app is developed that only works over broadband then I think it may not become widespread until the cost comes down. There is mulitmedia that really will only work over broadband. The other is voice over IP which is a lot less money than long distance calls. I do not know what the hold up is. The cost to a business for broadband is rediculous. $150/month for about a million bits per second.