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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (11978)	10/18/2001 5:54:24 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Broadband price itself out of the market. We should keep in mind that telecommunications started with very cheap resources to build the telephony infrastructure. The guy who made fences in the farm moved to work to the telephone company and hit the deck running. Instead of stretching barbed wires, he stretched copper wires in between poles. Today to build telecoms you a need a guy with at least 12 years of school and tons of money to spend on marketing. I think with the money spent on conferences you could run a sizeable telecoms outfit. With the one spent on golf tournaments -for ther vendor executives woo FCC officials or devise plans to kill competitors- you could start another one. Today you have to equip this newcomer guy with a whole paraphernalia. The guy who came from the farm needed only, spiked boot to climb poles, hard hat and gloves. Today for us to build, successfully, broadband we would need the same level of cheap worker and organization that build the telephone network. We needed temas of guys to go around in a bike fixing problems, reporting to a big team of middle managers, who, in its turn started devising ways to save time, improve the services, appease customers. From telling the guys to wipe their feet before entering a house and how to avoid dog bites to devising special tools. All that can only be achieved by cheap manpower. The type who build the telephone network. Nowadays it is very expensive to build anything. You cannot do that with a automated call centers and paying top dollar for the marketeers hype the technology to death and bringing in a B747 load of India Engineers from Bangalore. PS: I can recall Charton Heston telling on TV that many films shot in the 50's and 60's could not be made today. It would be too expensive to make El Cid once again. Just notice today's films: the whole thing is digital image. And they still can afford shooting something for real if they go to Prague to use the strudios there. Even Hollywood has priced itself out of the market.