SBC forcing new contract on ISPs

Mon Jun 25 18:42:05 UTC 2001

What I meant, and probably should have worded more clearly, is that by 
forcing DSL ISPs to use PPPoE which from what I understand is a consumer 
technology, SBC is the only provider who can offer other services over the 
DSL pair, such as ATM service or voice/video over IP.

-C

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:35:59PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> Once upon a time, Christopher A. Woodfield <rekoil at semihuman.com> said:
> > If I'm reading this correctly, SBC is forcing ISPs that resell SBC's DSL 
> > access to go with PPPoE over ATM, thus potentially forcing businesses to 
> > buy DSL net access from SBC directly.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how PPPoA forces businesses
> to buy DSL elsewhere.
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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