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To: jach who wrote (34919)	2/15/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 61433

considering the fact that T1 (1.54 Mbits/sec) such as frame relay, low-speed ATM costs around thousands of $$ per month range for bisiness; so, if this really can go into real-life with the substained throughput for business environment, will be interesting as there will be no room for profit for SPs, telcos, RBOCs, .. and probably won't have much incentives for them to buy network equipments either. jach, Since the limitation is not the business market, I believe the economy of scale will make it profitable. Glenn

To: jach who wrote (34919)	2/15/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: blankmind	Respond to of 61433

considering the fact that T1 (1.54 Mbits/sec) such as frame relay, low-speed ATM costs around thousands of $$ per month range for bisiness; so, if this really can go into real-life with the substained throughput for business environment, will be interesting as there will be no room for profit for SPs, telcos, RBOCs, .. and probably won't have much incentives for them to buy network equipments either. - jach when you consider how many people currently have t1, to how many people would purchase dsl technology. when you can sell in such quantity, you can actually make more money and profit from a quantity of sales, although at a lesser price, the paradigm shifts. how many more pc's are sold as the price drops? the market becomes greater, and although profit per pc is less, the quantity sold offsets the lower margin per pc. the same with dsl, they have developed types of dsl (splitterless)that will work on the current copper wires to your home, as a regular 28 or 56k modem does today. the telcos can charge more for the service, and thus increase profits.