[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[Pat Regan]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> You might think you have more choice due to the other "providers" of DSL
> but all these have to run over AT&T phone lines and still have issues
> with AT&T and Verizon that were supposed to have prevented the RBOCs
> from getting into long distance in he first place.   CLECs never truly
> were due to these issues - otherwise you'd have more choice in home
> phone service as well.

I worked for two different CLECs.  Only one of them had their own
central offices and provided the copper for the last mile.  And they
only did that in part of two or three markets out of a dozen or so that
they offered service.

I think we're opening up better avenues today than we were when the
telecommunications act that allowed CLECs to be created was passed.  A
large part of the country can run VOIP over their choice of at least two
ISPs.  It is terribly cheap to establish yourself as a VOIP provider.

Mobile phone carriers are offering lower and lower prices for more and
more minutes.  I certainly don't believe long range wireless internet
access can compete with the speed of the wires.  Thankfully audio
compression keeps getting better and available bandwidth keeps going up.
 That can only mean good things for wireless phone carriers as far as
voice traffic goes.

Pat

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