[1st-mile-nm] Qwest: Santa Fe DSL Update

[Andrew Cohill]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote:

>
> More than 500 Santa Fe residents in the areas of Old Pecos Trail  
> and Los
> Sueos Trail are among those in the state reaping the benefits of  
> Qwest's
> $270 million settlement with the state Public Regulation Commission.
>
> The company extended high-speed Internet access to remote terminals on
> those roads in April, May and June, according to a progress report the
> company filed this week.
>

The problem, of course, is the liberal use of "high speed" in  
describing the upgrades, without really providing any context.  Qwest  
"high speed Internet access" is the miserably inadequate DSL  
service.  If you have been on dial up and are now getting DSL, it is  
a great improvement, but overall, the heavy investment in DSL does  
not prepare New Mexico for competition against other communities in  
the U.S. and other countries that are investing in open access and  
open services fiber systems with a typical 100x improvement in  
capacity over DSL.

Andrew


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