[IP] more on Verizon to Sell High Speed Net Connections for $14.95 a month

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Marc <marcaniballi@hotmail.com>
Date: August 25, 2005 6:26:22 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: 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 Ip
Subject: [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.



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