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Consumer DSL: new hopes and promises. (Universal Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line Working Group)

Business Communications Review, March, 1998 by Puttre, John

ADSL may be the only route the telcos have to provide mass broadband access to millions of homes and offices. But at the Comnet show in January, Bell Atlantic indicated that only 600 to 800 ADSL modems have been installed in its entire territory. This is the bitter and ugly truth of how little progress the telcos have made in deploying the only technology that can solve the "last mile" problem for large-scale broadband service delivery.

DSL vendors, although hugely disappointed by the lack of progress, have a new, coordinated financial and technical strategy to lower the telcos' resistance. They also have powerful new allies in Intel, Microsoft and the PC industry, who, for reasons of their own, need mass DSL deployment. Their new alliance is the Universal...

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