> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Prior [mailto:david at priorintelligence.com]
> Sent: 28 June 2002 11:51
> To: letters at thetimes.co.uk
> Subject: Welcome to the Telecom Dark Ages
> Importance: High
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> The fact of the matter is that existing approaches to 'broadband' are
> short-term only. Without a move towards real broadband, and by real I mean a
> network infrastructure providing at least 10Mbps of converged (voice,
> Internet, TV, audio, video, etc.) services, demand will remain fettered;
> deployed cable will remain unlit, and the telecommunications sector will
> continue to decline.
Gilder wrote a few months ago on the WSJ editorial page that the telecom crapout was due precisely to the ILEC's stifling of DSL. It's naive to think that 10Mbps pipes will do a better job than 1Mbps at whetting the appetite for bandwidth when ILECS are running interference.
Maybe the UK is different, though.
Chris