[wplug] cheap DSL in Pittsburgh?

Ryan Brown mailinglists at tblive.com
Thu Jan 20 15:32:51 EST 2005



-----Original Message-----
From: Drew from Zhrodague [mailto:drew at zhrodague.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:23 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] cheap DSL in Pittsburgh?

> > 	That won't be offered here. Pittsburgh does not have the density 
> > or the cashflow for them to even bother with laying new fiber to each
and 
> > every home.
> > 
> 
> Maybe not in Pittsburgh, but Cranberry definitely has some fiber loops
> close to a lot of residential area.

>	Right, but fiber near != fiber installed. Level3 has a colo here 
> in the South Side, but that doesn't mean I get any of that -- and I'm four

> blocks away!


They do not. Level 3 has a dormant building on the South Side. It definitely
is not active and has not been for a very long time. ;)

If you have Level 3 bandwidth in Pittsburgh it is coming from DC.



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