[37447] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: People who purchase unproven technologies...DSL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Mon May 14 08:05:31 2001
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 07:53:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Joe Marr <jmarr@twmaine.com>
Cc: "'John Palmer (NANOG Acct)'" <nanog@adns.net>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> Why would anyone purchase dsl to run their business on. Let me guess, the
> price was right.
I would call it a proven technology, but a very poor business model.
And xDSL is definately not for mission critical operations.
And the list of failed local xDSL providers gets longer. Luckily
we stayed out of it, and are still in business as are our customers.