[Cialug] DSL provider costs.

[Tony Bibbs]

To open a related can of worms, I think the ICN could probably do a good 
job of providing this sort of service with better customer service and 
reliability.

The obviously huge issue with this is having a state funded entity 
competing with the private sector.

--Tony

Dave Weis wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, john doe wrote:
>> After talking with a neighbor of my parents the other day, I was 
>> surprised
>> to hear that he's paying around $40 for 768 kbps DSL from Iowa Telecom.
>> Thought that was a little bit high, so I looked at the Iowa Telecom site.
>> Not only was he right, but the price for 1.024 Mb was $169.99!
>>
>> Does anyone else have information on non-Qwest residential high-speed
>> access (dsl, otherwise) around the state?
> 
> Providing DSL can be expensive, especially when your customers are all 
> over. I'm one of the last people that will defend Iowa Telecom but they 
> do have DSL in 100% of their towns. It gets expensive to put a DSLAM in 
> West Pig's Knuckle Iowa and the recurring cost of dragging a couple T1's 
> back to Newton.
> 
> A later message said they were looking at WiMax, I don't think that's 
> going to work as well as everyone that's selling it does. There's not 
> enough control over the spectrum and interference to give me a warm 
> fuzzy feeling. Comparing it to fiber is ridiculous, it's orders of 
> magnitude faster and more reliable.
>