Does the US Telecom Bill and the deregulation in European telecoms market affect DSL deployment?
The passing of the Telecom Bill and European deregulation open up intense competition by enabling service providers to compete with each other’s existing services. Cable companies are able to compete with local telephone companies by offering telephone and data services over the cable network. Telephone companies can reciprocate by offering video services over the copper telephone wires. In adding these new services, both players are seeking to exploit the massive investment already made in their existing installed infrastructures, and make incremental upgrades as needed. Telephone companies currently have access to more than 600 million existing copper lines worldwide. These are already connected into homes and business locations. By applying DSL technology these lines can be upgraded to high-speed digital links that can carry such new services.
