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DSL Woes
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DSL is expensive to deploy, and covad and the other DSL providers have tried to pass this cost onto the ISP's rather than consumers. They have minimum subscribtion agreements from ISP's which are totally unreasonable for most ISP's. Hence even if ISP's passed all the money they got from customers on to covad, there would still owe them money.
Some ISP's decided that DSL is a loss leader but marketing advantage. Others pretended they could make money with DSL. The latter group are the ones who are sorely dissapointed.
Saif
Smart weapons already offer American TV viewers a level of detachment that stifles any possibility of moral outrage from the populace. What happenned to the days when there was a price for war. With no American lives being lost leaders are getting used to the idea of a casualty free war making the price of war low enough politically to encourage wars whenever there is a domestic crisis that attention needs to be diverted from.
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DSL is expensive to deploy, and covad and the other DSL providers have tried to pass this cost onto the ISP's rather than consumers. They have minimum subscribtion agreements from ISP's which are totally unreasonable for most ISP's. Hence even if ISP's passed all the money they got from customers on to covad, there would still owe them money. Some ISP's decided that DSL is a loss leader but marketing advantage. Others pretended they could make money with DSL. The latter group are the ones who are sorely dissapointed. Saif
Smart weapons already offer American TV viewers a level of detachment that stifles any possibility of moral outrage from the populace. What happenned to the days when there was a price for war. With no American lives being lost leaders are getting used to the idea of a casualty free war making the price of war low enough politically to encourage wars whenever there is a domestic crisis that attention needs to be diverted from.