RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

["Shane Owens" <shaneowens () dna-communications com>]

 On this I am wondering what the user market would chose with an offer from a DSL provider of a guaranteed bandwidth 
purchase with a
contention based cap on max speed.  For example DSL sold with a guaranteed bandwidth availability of 256K (or 512K, 
768K etc based
on 256K increments) with a "up to" maximum of 7-10Mbps.  Would the typical user understand the difference between this 
the standard
Comcast marketing of "up to" speeds without any service guarantee?

Shane

> It won't be long before the telco's respond by offering DSL at the same speed/price. I've heard (but don't *know*) 
> that SBC is
selling 6 down and 1 up in >Houston and Dallas for $35.
> We're doing a fair business selling accelerated dial up for $15. Its surprising how many folks don't want broadband. 
> You don't need
4mb down to read 
> your email. And once you get outside of the city limits there's a good sized market that can't get any type of 
> broadband,
especially cable.
> We may decline some, but I don't think that ISP's are going away anytime soon.
>
> Bob Martin