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To: RTev who wrote (19289)	3/30/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

> What am I missing? Why wouldn't USWest match the MSN DSL service performance at a lower cost. > Yeah. That's the big question. If msn or aol or anyone else came in with much lower prices, I can only hope that USWest and GTE (which has much of the suburban territory in this region) would have to lower their prices. A couple of possibilities come to mind: 1) The telco is using this as a testbed for new technology. 2) Due to the MSN co-branding, they picture this as less competition to traditional business service such as T-1s. In some situations, DSL is considerably cheaper for equal or superior bandwidth. Good for the consumer, not necessarily good for the telco. 3) I'm aware of at least one company providing xDSL service over lines where the telco said they couldn't (using different technology than the telco and providing extra equipment). This could be something along that line. - Eric