Here's one piece of info revealing why we should have enjoyed 6Mbps ADSL three years ago but didn't.
TM's business development teams were delighted that they would be able to sell high-speed broadband in the range of 4 to 6-Mbps all over the country as most if not all their customers wanted such a service immediately.
However, there had been a policy in place from "top management" that TM would not offer high-speed communication services to its customers, especially corporate ones, without ensuring that a hefty premium was levied upon those corporate business customers.
This policy was referred to in closed circles as the "invisible tax" as it hinted to the indirect taxing of data communications users by imposing a significantly high levy with regard to market rates and the actual cost of deploying and maintaining such services (which was very low).
To that end, TM would quote its infamous escape clause: "It’s too expensive to upgrade the backhaul network to cater to all the influx of last mile service if everyone was given multi-megabit data communication lines" – and get away with offering 384-Kbps and then “upgrading” to 512-Kbps and later giving its customers a generous and hefty bonus in the form of 1-Mbps ADSL service.
Behind closed doors, TM executives were laughing at how easy it is to make money from a little electricity and some copper wires that were installed 20 years ago – because they all knew that in order to offer 6-Mbps ADSL service to end users all over the country, all that needed to be done was to tell the DSLAM network management guys to activate 6-Mbps; a few keystrokes and a little configuration change and 6-Mbps is open to everyone! No cost implication. All past and current ADSL modems and routers support 6-Mbps out of the box. [...]
Every engineer and executive in TM’s technical team knows that if they just put a few more DWDM boxes around the country – the capacity of their existing optical fiber network could be increased by 16, 32 or 64 times the current bandwidth without altering a single switch, without changing a single configuration, without increasing electrical or cooling usage, without having to make even a single TM exchange larger in size and definitely without spending the massive amount of money TM currently does in purportedly adding capacity by using outdated technology line cards via the purchase of significantly overpriced beyond market rates the obsolete transmission technology equipment it currently insists on using.
HA! so much for TM's new branding!
However, there had been a policy in place from "top management" that TM would not offer high-speed communication services to its customers, especially corporate ones, without ensuring that a hefty premium was levied upon those corporate business customers.
This policy was referred to in closed circles as the "invisible tax" as it hinted to the indirect taxing of data communications users by imposing a significantly high levy with regard to market rates and the actual cost of deploying and maintaining such services (which was very low).
To that end, TM would quote its infamous escape clause: "It’s too expensive to upgrade the backhaul network to cater to all the influx of last mile service if everyone was given multi-megabit data communication lines" – and get away with offering 384-Kbps and then “upgrading” to 512-Kbps and later giving its customers a generous and hefty bonus in the form of 1-Mbps ADSL service.
Behind closed doors, TM executives were laughing at how easy it is to make money from a little electricity and some copper wires that were installed 20 years ago – because they all knew that in order to offer 6-Mbps ADSL service to end users all over the country, all that needed to be done was to tell the DSLAM network management guys to activate 6-Mbps; a few keystrokes and a little configuration change and 6-Mbps is open to everyone! No cost implication. All past and current ADSL modems and routers support 6-Mbps out of the box. [...]
Every engineer and executive in TM’s technical team knows that if they just put a few more DWDM boxes around the country – the capacity of their existing optical fiber network could be increased by 16, 32 or 64 times the current bandwidth without altering a single switch, without changing a single configuration, without increasing electrical or cooling usage, without having to make even a single TM exchange larger in size and definitely without spending the massive amount of money TM currently does in purportedly adding capacity by using outdated technology line cards via the purchase of significantly overpriced beyond market rates the obsolete transmission technology equipment it currently insists on using.
HA! so much for TM's new branding!
