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To: Bill McCullen who wrote (1585)	1/13/1999 4:04:00 PM
From: Sandie	Respond to of 3299

Actually Bill I believe you're correct: 30 Mbps is a "neighborhood" rate. Individual download speeds will vary as a function of neighborhood load. I agree that on a single-dwelling residential basis, FTTC is years away. I had read a few years ago that the RBOCs were replacing twisted-pair with fiber at the rate of about 8-9% per year insofar as they had to replace aging copper anyway it might as well be fiber...as I understand, ADSL does not work over fiber nor is it particularly reliable over aging copper. Do you think there might be more to ADSL's slow roll-out than simply RBOC procrastination? Anecdotal footnote: There were some contractors for BEL laying a cable in my side yard last week. I asked them what it was...they said 24-line copper. I asked them if they laid fiber and they said they did on a 50/50 basis. As I think about it, why would the RBOCs facilitate residential customer erosion by building a broadband gateway to the home? Doesn't copper help to prolong their residential monopoly? None of the CLECs want to serve the residential market. They'd much rather cream-skim the high margin business accounts.