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To: SDR-SI who wrote (1376)	4/29/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

Steve, this is not an "eat your heart out" post but rather a statement of how weird the current state of the bandwidth roll-out really is. We're in the Silicon Valley where every DSL, ISDN, satellite, cable modem, fixed wireless (have I left anything out?) provider and their mom is beating down doors to install their latest and greatest thinga-jiggie. We used Concentric/Covad for our DSL and we were up and running in about 3 weeks from time of order (most of that time was spent squeezing IP addresses out of Concentric: the damn things are on short rations, which makes NO sense to me, but. . .) Meanwhile the local RBOC, Pacific Telesis (SBC), drops their residential DSL rates from 80 bucks to 40 per month and is so flooded with orders that they ran out of installers. "We were caught off guard by the response to our new pricing structure" quoth one of the marketing geniuses at PacBell. Anybody ever heard of price elasticity of demand? I think it's good to interpose the hard, cold facts of life in the day to day trenches as we contemplate life in the superfast bandwidth abundance lane which is due to begin . . . .when was that again? Best, Mike