RE: ADSL (Was: GSM technology

Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> wrote re: ADSL lines>
They're not widely available yet; I don't know if any of the (US)
phone companies offer it as more than trials.  One limitation is that
the technology works over copper wire, so it has to be offered at
your local telco wire center.
 
A previous poster mentioned that because of the copper wire restriction, that
they may deploy first in older centers. This would appear to be the case, since
a Canadian telco (Sasktel) is offering ADSL in Saskatoon for 60$/month with
unlimited internet access. Saskatoon falls into this category - in my opinion.
 
I was only is SK briefly over New Years, but perhaps Toto can fill in details.
 
James

Toto wrote:
> 
> jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca wrote:
> > A previous poster mentioned that because of the copper wire restriction, that
> > they may deploy first in older centers. This would appear to be the case, since
> > a Canadian telco (Sasktel) is offering ADSL in Saskatoon for 60$/month with
> > unlimited internet access. Saskatoon falls into this category - in my opinion.
> >
> > I was only is SK briefly over New Years, but perhaps Toto can fill in details.
> 
> James,
>   SaskTel has, for the most part, always had a monopoly on the telephone
> business in Saskatchewan, and used this to keep the phone rates fairly
> high. On the other hand, they also used much of the money to position
> themselves to keep their monopoly by investing heavily in the newest
> technologies.
>   As a result, they have a lot of fiber-optic, etc., even in the
> boondocks, but they also soaked those people $ 6.00 hour for
> InterNet access, until Sympatico came in with a competitive rate
> of less than $ 1.00/hour, and then they stopped clipping the
> sucker/citizens.
>   SaskTel left the 'upgrading' of the larger centers to last, and
> as a result, their 'old' technology seems to be ironically beneficial
> to them in being able to offer ADSL in Saskatoon, Regina, and a couple
> of other centers.
> 
> Toto