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Small Biz Loves DSL but U.S. Lags Behind
"Heck no, we won't go," say many small U.S. businesses who were asked about reverting to dial-up Internet access from DSL. In fact, 65 percent of the 550 business DSL subscribers that were surveyed via telephone by the Yankee Group for DSL provider SBC indicated that their broadband connection would be one of the last services eliminated if they needed to cut costs. The survey revealed that almost all (91 percent) of the business DSL subscribers believe that the productivity benefits of the service meet or exceed their expectations in relation to the monthly cost. "Businesses truly believe that broadband enables them to service their customers better and more efficiently," said Mike Lauricella, program manager with the Yankee Group's Small and Medium Business Technologies Practice. "Businesses will only continue to increase their use of the Internet and continue to extend broadband throughout the company."
Go to article at Internet.com

DSL's Value in the U.S.
Despite the fact digital subscriber line (DSL) service is available in most parts of the U.S., the number of new users continues to drop every year, a fact that's prompted everyone from the incumbent telephone companies to the Federal Communications Commission to Congress to weigh in with the cause for drop off. The way some analysts see it, the answer might be just a little more simple than what corporate America and legislators make it seem. Judging by the booming broadband business foreign countries are enjoying today, it all comes down to price.
Go to article by Jim Wagner at Internetnews.com

SBC tunes in EchoStar
SBC Communications Inc. said Wednesday it will begin selling its high-speed Internet service together with EchoStar Communications' satellite television services.
Go to article at Dayton Business Journal

5 DSL stories you'll want to read
1. BT LAUNCHES 'NO FRILLS' DSL
2. PIPEX DEFENDS BT IN FREESERVE ADSL SPAT
3. DIY DSL SNEAKS OUT OF THE TRAPS
4. A JOURNEY TO DSL HELL
5. BT TRIALS 'NEXT GENERATION' BROADBAND
Article at Silicon.com is no longer available.

DSL Drives Net Growth In Japan
The rate of growth in digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband subscribers is increasing in Japan as more consumers switch on to high-speed Internet connections. Net additions to Japan's Internet population during February were dominated by DSL, which registered 288,704 of the month's approximate 483,700 subscriptions gain in total fixed line Internet users. -- Article by Adam Creed at Newsbytes is no longer available.

Breaking the DSL Stigma - From cable to DSL in three day
One of the stigmas hung around the neck of DSL is the inordinately long installation time. Coordination of loop installs, and CLEC vs. ILEC bickering (or just ILEC incompetence) for many years meant you could grow a full cycle of crops in the time it took for DSL Line delivery. This seems to be changing, at least for some. When self-install kits originally hit the scene some time ago, there was naturally a large dose of skepticism among those of us who had waited endlessly for our DSL lines to go live. In reality, these "truckless installs" have had a fairly high success rate, with the relative success of DirecTV and others (at least of the initial install) backing this up. Most companies have now made the self-install kits part of their modus operandi, but coordination snafus and bureaucratic quagmires still lend to lengthy install times for those looking to join the armies of the DSL faithful. However, there at least seems to be some improvement in getting the DSL line up and running, though much less in the ability to keep it that way.
Go to article at DSL Reports

DirecTV Broadband Going Vo-IP Route
In a move that signals an entry into the high-speed Voice-over Internet Protocol (Vo-IP) market, DirecTV Broadband on Tuesday announced a deal with Texas Instruments to roll out voice-enabled DSL gateways to residential customers in the U.S. DirecTV Broadband, a satellite TV company which offers residential DSL Internet service, said the partnership with Texas Instruments would clear the way for the deployment of DSL gateways in late 2002. The gateways allows DirecTV Broadband to sell add-on Vo-IP services like data routing, support for two digital voice lines and home network interfaces. DirecTV Broadband, a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics, said Texas Instruments would integrate the AR5V10 DSL gateway software into a complete third generation DirecTV DSL gateway for consumer deployment throughout the United States. "The gateways will also be equipped with home networking technology to allow the sharing of broadband content and services throughout the home," the company said.
Go to article by Ryan Naraine at Internet News

California PUC To Regulate State DSL
In a move destined to send shockwaves through the sector, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has ruled that it has the authority to regulate DSL-based Internet services. The declaration makes California the first state in the nation to take an authority position over the delivery of broadband Internet services provided by local telephone companies. DSL prices and connection speeds will still be the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, but California will now oversee how providers serve their customers and competitors in the same way it oversees the state's power and telephone companies.
Go to article by Michael Singer at Internet.com

Start-up's IP phone switch extends DSL services
Start-up Sentito Networks is coming out with a full-featured local telephone switch that will make it faster to set up DSL services, extend DSL to areas where it currently cannot reach and support services such as frame relay to the home. Sentito's New End Office Service Switch (NSS) enables service providers to connect one set of wires to a customer's house and change the services that are delivered over them without touching the wires again. Today, if a service provider wants to upgrade customer phone lines to DSL, a technician has to move the wires from one card on a switch to another card. With Sentito gear that change can be made by uploading software to the NSS line card to which the wires are attached. NSS has cards for two-wire connections that support phone service and DSL, and four-wire cards for T-1, channelized T-1, primary rate interface ISDN and frame relay.
Go to article by Tim Greene at Network World Fusion

A journey to DSL hell - Installing an artificial heart would be less hassle, guesses Ben King, after trying to test BT ADSL services...
It didn't sound like the world's toughest assignment: One, blag a free DSL connection. Two, put the world on voicemail. Three, gambol unrestrained across the wide-open spaces of the world wide web. But getting ADSL from BT - not even some reseller or a company grappling with local loop unbundling - wasn't easy. Over a month after I first requested it, a charming gentleman from BT knocked on my door. We'll call him Pete. He was an hour early, before I had a chance to make the house fit for visitors. All the same, he dealt with the prospect of working in a room strewn with a stranger's dirty clothes with consummate tact. It takes a lot to shock a doctor, they say, and I'm sure the same also applies to a telecoms engineer. So, it was all looking suspiciously good. A bit of cable gets pinned to the wall, a scary-looking blue-green DSL modem gets plugged into my USB port. A bit of software gets installed swiftly and painlessly. And it looks like it's all going to work very smoothly. Then the problems start - Pete puts in a bit more cable, and starts getting error messages. The computer on the other end of the line wouldn't talk to us. -- Article by Ben King at Silicon.com is no longer available.

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