Despite current problems, residential and business DSL will be $5...
Despite current problems, residential and business DSL will be $5 billion business by 2005, vs. $1.8 billion today, New Paradigm Resources Group (NPRG) said in new report. Few competing technologies can provide last mile broadband connectivity and market will…
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support DSL’s continued growth, report said. “The next generation of DSL providers will have a better handle on how to offer DSL services,” NPRG Senior Vp Craig Clausen said. “The provisioning of DSL proved much more difficult than initially thought: It was a 50-50 crap shoot whether a new customer would be within the distance limitation, and beyond that, it was another 50-50 chance that the customer would have a phone line with proper conditioning.” DSL business models also are flawed, he said. “Early DSL providers had no idea how to interface with and collect from the ISPs.” While report predicted next generation of DSL providers, including CLECs, would be profitable, Clausen said he expected little regulatory help for CLECs. “The most we'll see from the [FCC Chmn. Michael Powell] is some additional enforcement” of existing rules, he said; existing technology will need to improve to make current regulatory environment workable -- NPRG, 312-980-4796.