While gross margins on its DSL modems are 33% and rising, competitors will someday take those margins away.
Security is also raised by DSL partisans against shared-media CTMs. But this will soon be fixed.
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Holographic-like video conferences are already possible at low resolution, using off-the-shelf technology and DSL lines.
Example: access to the Internet in nations without much dial-up or DSL or cable or Wi-Fi.
Early on, I realized that DSL was not the darling of the communications space.
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The first quarter looks strong, but telecom DSL is getting cheaper and Murdoch's around the corner.
Listen to Robert Knowling, 44, describe the negotiations with Covad Communications, a DSL provider.
And if the phone companies keep pushing DSL, Efficient should sell millions of modems.
Worse, South Korea's fiber lines operate much fasterthan our typical DSL and cable connections.
The announcement comes one day after Nortel Networks said it plans to exit the DSL business.
Approximately 40 percent of those customers have switched from slower DSL, cable, and wireless services.
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Although U-Verse subscriptions are growing fast, DSL subscriptions are falling and offsetting some of the growth.
We can have dial up, or we can get DSL, or we can get cable modem, whatever.
Hate to break the news, but your "fast" DSL Internet access is no longer considered high speed.
"There's plenty of room for cable, DSL, wireless, and satellite, " says Michael Harris, president of Kinetic Strategies.
The company is also working on equipment to serve pure fiber systems, which would make DSL obsolete.
Your correspondent is admittedly near the end of the road for a digital subscriber line (DSL) connection.
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It limits DSL users to 150 GB of bandwidth and U-Verse customers to 250 GB per month.
Moreover, consumers can get similar network speeds through DSL and WiFi with a much lower investment.
To supplant cable and DSL the power companies have to offer a service that's vastly cheaper and faster.
But video downloads take forever over the Internet--eight hours for a 90-minute film over a well-functioning DSL modem.
According to the report, Cable does better than DSL, and Google Fiber does better than everyone else.
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Cable and DSL offer persistent Net connections, or always-on connections, removing squealing, temperamental modems from the picture completely.
Personal computer users will reap the benefits of the high-speed connection only if they have DSL or cable modems.
Not only were computer dial-up offerings delayed, but higher speed ISDN and DSL services went almost entirely to competitors.
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But DSL has serious technical glitches--and fixing them could be a big business.
He notes this is a totally different topic than SBC's DSL rollout plan.
As of now, cable and DSL connections account for most of that growth.
Is Verizon's DSL division going to tell us they don't want us sharing our broadband among many computers, too?
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DSL, which it believes will allow competitors to undermine its highly profitable business of leasing dedicated lines to businesses.
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