DSL/Cable over Dial Up (Score 2, Insightful)

Geesh, I use to work for an ISP out west and had to deal with a baby bell.. People complain about the price of dsl being 2x more than dial up, so what, with up to 50x faster speeds that's a good deal if you ask me personally. You really have no idea how much money needs to be put into it every month just to turn a profit from the ISP's standpoint, especially when they are a reseller of DSL through a CLEC/ILEC. First off reselling DSL makes you target numero uno on the phone companies list, you're digging into their profit. If they charge $39 for a circuit and $1 for their internet that's $40.. Well the ISP has to pay for that $39 too or the customer does going through the ISP depending on how billing is structured. An ISP can not afford taking a hit by charging $1 to a customer for access, it's just not feasible. The phone company can charge so little for dsl because even in not making a profit on it they have you locked in as a subscriber plus make it up in high phone service charges. In the DSL world 200 subscibers on a T1 is just not feasible as it will saturate it, but a T3 or DS3 will do the trick, that's alot of money a month for that pipe, at a $1 a customer = $200/mo in charges. Show me where you can even find a T1 for $200/mo off of a reputible company. This is why there are fly by night ISP's they simply CAN NOT compete with that pricing so they have to charge more. Also there is alot more involved with the biggers companies screwing reseller isp's that the normal consumer has no clue about and these things do happen as I have been witness and victim to them first hand. Just a thought for everyone