On Tuesday 14 September 2010 23:42:46 Per Jessen wrote:
Exactly. It appears that in Russia it is not economical, but in Western Europe it is.
Which is why I keep saying I'm not getting the whole picture. I still haven't figured out why it doesn't pay to re-use the existing infrastructure. There are really two possible answers - 1) it doesn't exist or 2) it's not good enough. Or maybe there is no market if the majority is ethernet connected to Internet3.
It exists and currently advertised: ADSL over telephone is advertised by telephone company (a monopoly) and ADSL combined with cable television is advertised by another provider. This is an article from 2007: http://www.rosinvest.com/news/357112 It says ADSL had about 27% of the market share just one year ago but loose 10% of the market just in one year since because of backwards technology to the Ethernet providers. I think now they lost even more. It says the ADSL peaked in 2005 with 38% of all connections. It also says that in 2005 ADSL prices were 2 times lower than that of home networks (ethernet) but since then the prices became equal because starting from 2006 already existing home networks regained their positions by lowering prices. I also think that in other cities ADSL never had such share. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org