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Covad Set To Emerge From Bankruptcy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yahoo-my-dsl-will-stay dept.

powerlord writes "All of us still rooting for Covad can let out that deep breath we've been holding. According to an article on the Seatle IP Wire Covad is set to emerge from bankrupcy. They claim they've managed to shed most of their debts and are concentrating on 50 major metropolitan areas right now. They expect 40 of the markets to be cash positive by year end, with the entire company cash positive by mid 2003. Their stock rose $0.75 to $1.39."

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  1. Congrats, but by Erasei · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I worked with a company that partnered with Covad a few years ago. With any past partner, you wish them the best, and hope they do well as a company.

    But the reason (well, one of the many) reasons they went bankrupt in the first place was the old problem known as 'the last mile'. In the DSL world, the telco still has to be involved. So, how can a company like Covad, basically a reseller, expect to survive against the telco selling DSL themselves?

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  2. 80% isn't enough? by cperciva · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They expect 40 [out of 50] of the markets to be cash positive by year end, with the entire company cash positive by mid 2003.

    Either there's some interesting accounting going on, or they'r expecting to lose *lots* of money in the remaining 10 markets -- like over four times as much as the average profit from the profitable markets.

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  3. Strange by yoink! · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I find it really strange to hear about all these high speed service provider bankruptcies in the US. It seems like every few days or so, /. is running another story about a failed Cable or DSL provider.

    What puzzles me even more is the widespread success, at least here in Montreal, Quebec, of high speed internet (both G.lite DSL and Cable.) In fact the biggest provider, Bell Canada, is going to RAISE it's dial-up rates in January, lower it's DSL rates (via a few special sign up offers) and attempt to force the remaining dial-up users over to domesticated dedicated internet connections. It must be getting to costly to keep up all those modem pools with fewer and fewer users on them.