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more on Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:30:54 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Marc <marcaniballi () hotmail com> Date: August 25, 2005 6:26:22 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: RE: [IP] Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month
Just to compare; In 1997, I had 512k DSL in my Toronto apartment (downtown). In 2000, I had 1 MB DSL in my villa in Dubai.In 2004, I had 8 MB DSL in my house on the outskirts of a small town in the hills of Provence. This includes an IP phone with unlimited free national
calling (local calls are paid over here - usually).Sometime this year I will be upgrading to 25 MB (whenever the service gets
to my little rural corner of the world). Throughout this progression the price has steadily dropped. The 25 MB service is selling for 14.95 EUR (~$18 USD). And prices are going to continue dropping while speeds increase due to rampant competition (in Western Europe at least). Marc Aniballi -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:17 PM To: Ip IpSubject: [IP] Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month
Begin forwarded message: From: "(Mr) Lyn R Kennedy" <lrkn () earthlink net> Date: August 24, 2005 10:14:48 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:24PM -0400, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: Subject: [ip] Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month Verizon and SBC are also preparing to sell video programming over their high-speed data lines in the coming year, so they want to attract more customers to their entry-level broadband services in the hopes that they will later upgrade to the faster D.S.L. and fiber optic connections needed to watch television.
This is a rather amazing statement since both SBC and Verizon refuse to install DSL in my community, a nice residential community of $250,000 to $2 million dollar houses. Most of us are in the Dallas metro LATA and SBC brought fiber in here about 1998. SBC absolutely refuses to install DSL even for City Hall. We can get T1 for $600/mo but not DSL. We are represented in Congress by Joe Barton, Chairman of the House Commerce Committee which oversees communications in the federal area. Barton refuses to even call SBC on behalf of the people he is supposed to represent. Apparently he directly regulates Charter Cable which also refuses to install Internet service. They offer digital HBO but not Internet. The comment in my .sig below has been there for over ten years. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - | 73, E-mail | lrkn () earthlink net | | Lyn Kennedy webpage | http://home.earthlink.net/ ~lrkn | | K5QWB ICBM | 32.5 North 96.9 West | ---Livin' on an information dirt road a few miles off the superhighway--- ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as marcaniballi () hotmail com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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