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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (7402)	6/20/2004 3:44:59 AM
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Hi Frank, It continues to surprise how the ISDN appeal has stuck as well as it did Do you see disadvantages of ISDN? It offers more features than traditional phone lines. Ok, it's not a fast gate to the IP world - but then ISDN started in the 80ies, long before the Net took off. ... and that fiber and wireless deployments have not progressed as far along as I thought Well, DT alone owns 100,000 fiber miles. All in all there are probably millions of fiber miles in Germany - just not FTTH. Wireless is ubiquitous, in the GSM variant. Most people I know own a cell phone, some two or three. G3 (UMTS) services have started but are still expensive. Through HanseNet, eBiscom is already present in Hamburg, Germany. Hansenet is now owned by Telecom Italia and a good example of a successful CLEC. They have a better price/performance ratio than DT. Their DSL offer already has 5 Mbps downstream. Expansion to other cities is planned. HanseNet hansenet.de Two other CLECs I sometimes hear about: BerliKomm (in Berlin) berlikomm.de NetCologne (in Cologne/Bonn) netcologne.de There's one company which tries to take on DT nationally: QSC (acronym for "quality", "service", "communications") qsc.de They actually offer a VoIP-only account substituting the traditional phone service completely. QSC-IPfonie qsc.de Another European BB example you might like: in Vienna a company plans to send robots through the sewage system with the potential of linking 99% of all households to their fiber network. Exponet: Glasfaser für Wien schockiert österreichische Provider [Exponet: Fiber for Vienna shocks Austrian providers] heise.de