Broadband Is Dead (Or At Least Very Ill)

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Broadband Is Dead (Or At Least Very Ill)

Posted by timothy on Friday October 12, 2001 @11:51PM from the cringing-with-cringely dept.

Thornkin writes: "Broadband is dead. That is the proclamation of tech pundit Robert Cringely. With Excite@Home turning away new customers and going bankrupt along with most of the DSL companies, things are bleak and will get worse. The icing on the cake could be this bill which would remand the requirement for local phone providers to open their networks before competing in the long distance market." And at a different scale, apparently the DSL circuits in Blacksburg, VA (a place which liked to claim it was "the most wired town in America" not long ago) are now full, and turning away residential customers.

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Dead... dead... deadski... by Psarchasm · 2001-10-13 00:23 · Score: 4, Funny

And in related news...

Apple is dead.
Java is dead.
USB is dead.
IBM is dead.
Motorola is dead.
and of course...
Linux is dead.

Pft...

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1. Re:Dead... dead... deadski... by Snowfox · 2001-10-13 01:58 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Apple is dead.
  Java is dead.
  USB is dead.
  IBM is dead.
  Motorola is dead.
  
  and of course...
  Linux is dead
  
  *yawn* ... somebody wake me up when Cringely is dead.
Re:Headline problem....? by spyderbyte23 · 2001-10-13 00:42 · Score: 3, Funny

I get ADSL (500Kbits out, 2.5Mbits in), static IP, allowed to set up any server for non-commercial use and no cap, for $25 a month. Other offers in Sweden - while not quite as good - are comparative to this.

Wow! What are your immigration laws like? I am already a democratic socialist, if that helps...:-)

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Re:Yeah, broadband deserves to die. by Elwood+P+Dowd · 2001-10-13 01:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, at the time they were talking about having Cable downstream only, and you'd have a regular modem doing the upstream traffic. So that's why I thought it sucked then. The reason that I think it sucks now is that most of the time, my 56k modem is faster. I guarantee you, I'm not downloading 650 megs in an hour.

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What is "Insightful" about this? by dsfox · 2001-10-13 01:45 · Score: 4, Funny

You say "The fact is..." -- just where do you get your golden facts? If you want to show us how right you are and how wrong they are you'll have to do better than this.
Re:I'll but not dead by Surak · 2001-10-13 02:06 · Score: 4, Funny

But that's not "dead" or even "dying". I'll believe "dead" when Comcast turns off my Internet service.

Yeah, and RoadRunner isn't going anywhere eit.*(P&(_&* ^)*(&PFSAS

NO CARRIER

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feeeeeeeew by WildBeast · 2001-10-13 02:10 · Score: 2, Funny

I read the subject like "Borland is dead" and got worried until I read the subject again :)
Re:blah blah blah, pundits! by haruharaharu · 2001-10-13 02:31 · Score: 4, Funny

spoken like a true pundit

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If broadband dies... by lewp · 2001-10-13 03:13 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm getting a T3 and a warehouse and starting a homeless shelter-style facility for displaced geeks.

That's where the money is.

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Bring out your dead! by TheMightyZog · 2001-10-13 04:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Broadband: I'm not dead!
Cringely: Yes, he is.
Broadband: I'm not.
Cringely: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
Broadband: I'm getting better!
Cringely: No you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
Broadband: I don't want to go on the cart
Cringely: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Broadband: I feel fine.
Cringely: Can you hang around? He won't be long.
Broadband: I think I'll go for a walk.
Cringely: You're not fooling anyone
Broadband: I feel happy! I feel happy!