Steffen Higel wrote:
>> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 09:52:39PM +0100, Niall articulated:
> > Eircoms engineers claim that they wont be making DSL available till early
> > next year, and that theyre "nowhere near ready enough to release it before
> > the end of 2000".
> I heard a while back, (and do forgive me if I have been misinformed), that
> the biggest factor in causing the delay was that they didn't know how to
> price it. ie offering a service which is The Way To Go, but pricing it in
> such a way as not to piss off people who had already invested in ISDN.
More like 'Oh shit, we're still relying on a pricing structure that has
leased lines as our biggest source of income, and other companies are
about to roll out a competing offering for a twentieth of the cost.'
Vin
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