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To: ftth who wrote (12965)	1/15/2006 5:47:31 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

"There are? Where have they been hiding the past 10 years?" I stated "would aspire to", not "deliver now". I can't readily list any except for some of the oversized private cable operators (PCOs), as differentiated from independent cable operators that are fashioned after the MSOs. Some PCOs either are - or they sometimes partner with - developers, property owners or co-operative boards that have used alternative wireless and fiber-based distribution approaches, sometimes offering 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet, but their numbers are only becoming noticeable at this time. I think I've discussed two "aspiring" New York City startups on this list in the past, one using millimeter/microwave and coax, and the latter preferring to go with fiber and UTP to end points. I believe the former may have filed for a franchise by now, and the latter closed shop for a number of unrelated reasons. But for the most part I can't really point to a significant presence of these outfits, and I suspect that this is partially due to the barriers to entry, of which the franchise process is but one. ;) DBS? That wouldn't give rural farmers the broadband high-speed Internet access that they are really demanding, at least not any that I'm aware of that are affordable.