Re: DSL in Tokyo (again)

[Rod Holmes <rod@example.com>]

David Beutel (who's hobby, I suspect, is telling children Santa 
doesn't exist) ;-) wrote:
>  > Sorry to rain on your parade, but it might take a
>>  while to get that installed.  I haven't heard anything
>>  about eAccess, but Tokyo Metallic took about 5 months.

Then Jonathan Byrne of Exodus Communications K.K retorted:
>We deployed our DSL service on Dec. 1 and already have
>customers active and using it, so line setup is apparently
>not a problem.

So, I called GOL and asked. And then pushed their answer (it did 
change a little under pressure). The final answer from the sales 
person I spoke to is it's a 3-week process with about a 20% failure 
rate--meaning about 20% of locations don't have phone lines that will 
support the system.

Rod "There IS an Easter Bunny, There IS an Easter Bunny" Holmes
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