[24610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Podunk Telco
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Green)
Wed Jul 21 19:33:50 1999
To: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:33:17 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:32:13 -0500
From: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:33:17 -0700, dredd@megacity.org writes:
>He has mentioned to me, "what if I formed an CLEC/ISP and started leasing
>dry copper from CitsTel to provide DSL myself?" at which point he was very
>much over my head in ability to answer.
He would need to lease space in the CO for a DSLAM, then stick a router
there with a connection to an ISP somewhere. Not too difficult if the
telco will cooperate. However, line quality could be a big issue.
Different types of DSL have different tolerances to things like bridged
taps and loading coils.
No idea on cost, but I doubt what he's talking about will be cheap without
getting lots of subscribers.
-Jon
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