Broadband To The Home To Be Big Business
from the if-they-can-ever-get-it-working dept
Apparently, industry folks at the "Broadband Home" conference are positively giddy about the market potential for bringing broadband internet access into the home. That's just great. Instead of spending time at conferences talking about how much money they're going to make, they should be figuring out ways to actually get broadband access to the home. If it's such a great market, why have 3 different companies that provided me with broadband access to my home gone out of business in the last 7 months? As of right now, the only service provider who will officially offer me broadband access is @Home, and they just declared bankruptcy - and every time I call them, they tell me it was a mistake that they originally told me they would provide service to my area.
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@Home not likely to stop providing service
That and Comcast, one of the participants in the @home network, has indicated they will continue to provide @home cable modem services regardless of excite@home's condition.
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Re: @Home not likely to stop providing service
The only thing that kept them in business as long as they lasted was that the DSL companies were equally incompetent, if not more so.
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