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Source: Kinetic Strategies, Company Reports Industry Projections for Cable Modem Deployment and Plant Upgrades
C. DSL Deployment Various telecommunications providers, from incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), recently have adopted aggressive deployment schedules for DSL. There were approximately 160,000 DSL lines in service at the end of the second quarter 1999.71 This represents a 300% increase since the fourth quarter 1998 and a 100% increase since the first quarter 1999.72 The ILECs’ aggressive deployment of DSL can be attributed in large part to the deployment of cable modem service. Although the ILECs have possessed DSL technology since the late 1980s, they did not offer the service, for concern that it would negatively impact their other lines of businesses. 73 The deployment of cable modem service, however, spurred the ILECs to offer DSL or risk losing potential subscribers to cable. In various communities where cable modem service becomes available, the ILECs would soon deploy DSL service that was comparable in price and performance to the cable modem offering. 74 Thus, prior to cable modem deployment, the ILECs had little incentive to deploy DSL and the consumer had no choice for high-speed Internet access. At present, cable modem service has a considerable lead over DSL in terms of total number of subscribers in the residential market. We anticipate DSL will close this lead, with the adoption of new technologies and standards that will improve the performance of DSL. By 2007, the subscriber levels for DSL should be nearly comparable to cable.75 See Chart 2 at Appendix B. In addition to the ILECs, a new type of CLECs has begun to focus on the high-speed Internet market. Covad Communications Company (Covad), Rhythms NetConnections Inc. (Rhythms NetConnections), and NorthPoint Communications Inc. (Northpoint) all have raised billions of dollars in their initial public offerings. These companies intend to target DSL services to small and mid-sized businesses, as well as to residential customers.76 The adoption of DSL-lite (or G.lite) should further accelerate the pace of broadband deployment in the residential market, because it increases the coverage area of DSL 77 beyond 18,000 feet from the central office and allows more homes to receive high speed Internet access over their existing copper lines. In addition, G.lite can be installed (plug-and-play) by the customer.78 This plug-and-play feature is an important competitive factor, because it allows for off-the-shelf retail availability and modem pre-installation in PCs, two goals the cable industry hopes to achieve with its DOCSIS cable modem standard.79 The plug-and-play feature also lowers labor costs, since it reduces the time technicians spend installing the service at the home or business. Industry Projections & Announcements for DSL
TABLE 3: Percentage of ILEC Networks That Are DSL-Ready
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