[Air-l] Down to the Wire

[Ellis Godard]

Interesting you say "down to...". Without the free install and free
modem (both standard for virtually any DSL service in the US, and has
been the case for years, if not from the start of the DSL explosion),
DSL probably wouldn't have taken off in the US as it did.

But, as you also implied, lowering cost is not sufficient to attract
folks. They need to see the value of speed itself, and what it gets
them.

-eg 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Williamson [mailto:andy at wairua.co.nz] 
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:52 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard at csun.edu
> Subject: RE: [Air-l] Down to the Wire
> 
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> 
> No, the 'problem' is us - the stupid user - we simply don't 
> see sufficient value in having a broadband connection. It 
> must be the warm summer we've had but the Emperor is parading 
> around unclad. And nothing the ISPs and TelCo's can do - even 
> down to free install and free adsl modem - is changing our 
> minds. The uptake remains very slow.