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To: GST who wrote (136913)	1/13/2002 4:14:58 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

"What about the providers of equipment to light the fibre?" Who is going to pay them for to do that? That is the problem. GST, I am far from advocating buying them now. Your point about who will pay them has a lot of merit. The remaining telcos I believe are raising prices for broadband for businesses so they can afford to pay them at some future date. The incremental revenue from a wide rollout of broadband for the end consumer would although increase the revenue to needed to pay to the firms to light the fibre. I debate the merit of lack thereof of charging businesses more for the same service as the residential consumer. I suppose that since the amount of bandwidth is not metered, there is an assumption the business will be accessing the net far more often than a residence. That may be true unless that residence has a lot of teenagers that like to create music CDs;-)