Broadband Losers Had No Backbone
from the take-the-blame-off-of-me? dept
In an attempt to take some of the blame off of me and my broadband destroying powers, ZDNet has an article suggesting that the reason all these broadband providers are failing is because they don't own the backbone pipes of their connection. They were all reliant on a larger player (who was also a competitor) who did own the backbone. Of course, that doesn't necessarily explain why some companies will survive, or why wireless services like both Sprint & AT&T Fixed Wireless (along with Metricom) failed (though, obviously, there are plenty of other reasons for those too). I think it's clear that it was the convergence of a number of factors (often including my presence as a customer) that caused many of these services to fail. To pin it all on one simple factor would unerestimate the number of blunders or bad circumstances that destroyed a lot of formerly promising companies.
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