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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (7416)	6/4/2001 1:01:53 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

well for one thing if it was cheap and easy (regulations also holding things back), it would be done. obviously it took cable companies far more money and far more expense to upgrade their networks than they thought. obviously the networks aren't as reliable as people had hoped. there are countless cities where the cable companies promised to roll-out service by a certain date and 2 years later it still hasn't happened. Even cities are suing cable providers. dsl is obviously a flop. It doesn't work very well either, and it's expensive. even with dsl, cable, & wireless, that's not my definition of real broadband anyway. 256k, 512k, 1mbit? i dont think that internet 4-15 times faster is going to spur on some revolution in commerce. those speeds aren't even high enough to download hi quality streaming video. not only that but the upload speeds are even lower so it's only one way. let's say we had the capacity to deliver that kind of bandwidth today. no companies have the server capacity to serve up dvd quality video to everyone in america anyway. just look at yahoo. sometimes with a hi-speed connection it's still really slow. it's just a total flop and it might have happened in a few years had the bubble not burst. now that the bubble burst and the economy is tanking it will take probably closer to 10 years.