Re:This sucks!
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Skapare
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Some of these DSL providers, including Rhythms and North Point, had positioned their business plans in the direction of becoming a full CLEC and offering not only DSL, but everything else that a CLEC would offer, including voice and other data circuits. What they found is first there were too many of them fighting over the small market that would abandon the ILEC. Their DSL sales may have been going OK, but sales in other business plans were just not bearing fruit, yet they had invested lots of money overbuilding that structure. While DSL sales were happening, because of cut throat market posturing, profits from it were very small at best, and most likely negative anyway.
If a business plans to achieve 40% market share, can't be profitable with less than 25% share, and faces 9 competitors with the same plans, something's got to break. The smarter ones can live through it.
-- now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Re:Welcome to the Post-Internet Age
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bricriu
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Perhaps you mean "one less company --> more monopolistic power for the Baby Bells." They don't have to worry about remaining solvent, despite (as pointed out above) the ongoing (and insufficiently punitive) fines they face for not opening their networks.
Ya just can't ignore stuff like that:-(
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AHHHHHHH! I'm burning with goodness again!
- Reakk, Sluggy Freelance
Thank You Rhythms Employees.
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Necron69
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I would just like to say thank you to the employees of Rhythms (including my now unemployed sister-in-law), who worked hard to make a decent company out of that mess. I've had my SDSL line for a year, and although I had four different ISPs in that time, my line was Rhythms all the way with very few problems.
Fuck Rhythms management, who made off with millions while the employees and customers get screwed.
I guess my only choice now is Qwest.
- Necron69
Re:Yet another uninformative top-level post.
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Insightful
This is what's known as good reporting. You will find that most real news sites will work even these bits of "no-shit" information into every story. They might not put it as simply as you say, but they'll usually say something like "Microsoft plans to release Windows XP, their next-generation operating system with support for 64-bit processors. A spokesman for the computer software company was quoted as saying..." This is a legitimate criticism. As Slashdot is pretty much the keystone of VALinux's business at this point, they need to start taking their job seriously if they expect to succeed. If the editor's response is "we're too busy to write a real article" or "this is news for nerds, if you don't like it, go somewhere else", that's not going to play very well with stockholders money on the line.
Yet another uninformative top-level post.
by
Giant+Hairy+Spider
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Really now, how hard would it be to refer to them as "Rhythyms, a DSL connection provider," instead of forcing you to read the story to figure out whether it's something you care about.
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Re:Sorry, my fault they went under
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vtechpilot
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I seem to have a curse. Two of my last three employers are no longer (and the third is in critical condition).
Have you applied for a job at microsoft yet? From the people I know that work with them it doesn't seem to be that hard.
Do us all a favor and visit http://www.microsoft.com/jobs/
-- Slashdot is an anagram for Has Dolts, and I am Dolt number 468543
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Some of these DSL providers, including Rhythms and North Point, had positioned their business plans in the direction of becoming a full CLEC and offering not only DSL, but everything else that a CLEC would offer, including voice and other data circuits. What they found is first there were too many of them fighting over the small market that would abandon the ILEC. Their DSL sales may have been going OK, but sales in other business plans were just not bearing fruit, yet they had invested lots of money overbuilding that structure. While DSL sales were happening, because of cut throat market posturing, profits from it were very small at best, and most likely negative anyway.
If a business plans to achieve 40% market share, can't be profitable with less than 25% share, and faces 9 competitors with the same plans, something's got to break. The smarter ones can live through it.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Perhaps you mean "one less company --> more monopolistic power for the Baby Bells." They don't have to worry about remaining solvent, despite (as pointed out above) the ongoing (and insufficiently punitive) fines they face for not opening their networks.
:-(
Ya just can't ignore stuff like that
AHHHHHHH! I'm burning with goodness again!
- Reakk, Sluggy Freelance
I would just like to say thank you to the employees of Rhythms (including my now unemployed sister-in-law), who worked hard to make a decent company out of that mess. I've had my SDSL line for a year, and although I had four different ISPs in that time, my line was Rhythms all the way with very few problems.
Fuck Rhythms management, who made off with millions while the employees and customers get screwed.
I guess my only choice now is Qwest.
- Necron69
This is what's known as good reporting. You will find that most real news sites will work even these bits of "no-shit" information into every story. They might not put it as simply as you say, but they'll usually say something like "Microsoft plans to release Windows XP, their next-generation operating system with support for 64-bit processors. A spokesman for the computer software company was quoted as saying..." This is a legitimate criticism. As Slashdot is pretty much the keystone of VALinux's business at this point, they need to start taking their job seriously if they expect to succeed. If the editor's response is "we're too busy to write a real article" or "this is news for nerds, if you don't like it, go somewhere else", that's not going to play very well with stockholders money on the line.
Really now, how hard would it be to refer to them as "Rhythyms, a DSL connection provider," instead of forcing you to read the story to figure out whether it's something you care about.
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You'd be surprised at the broadband connection available to things crawling around in your hair.
I seem to have a curse. Two of my last three employers are no longer (and the third is in critical condition).
Have you applied for a job at microsoft yet? From the people I know that work with them it doesn't seem to be that hard.
Do us all a favor and visit http://www.microsoft.com/jobs/
Slashdot is an anagram for Has Dolts, and I am Dolt number 468543