Covad does not act as the ISP they provision the coppoer and test and
install the ciruit.  The circuit is then terminated to some ISP (whoever
sells the DSL) (i.e ZYON, Phoenix Internet)  Covad does, however, rely on
the ILEC (U.S. West here) to provision the line to covad's specs, but the
customer does not have to do this, it is all taken care of by the ISP that
the DSL is purchased from.  You as a customer cannot by from Covad, you
have to buy from one of their ISP VARs, but that is all you have to do,
the rest is taken care of as part of the order.

John Kloian III
____________________________________________________________________________
Vice President 			         Wired Global Communications, Inc.
Phone:  602.674.9900 ext. 103	 "Specializing in Open Source Network Solutions"
Fax:    602.674.8725       	            http://www.wiredglobal.net






On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Kevin O'Connor wrote:

> 	When a company, such as COVAD, offers service, I assume that they are
> acting as more than just an ISP for DSL. Are they just sub-leasing the
> line from US-Pest ? Are all repairs and upgrades to the line( or lack
> thereof ) still in the hands of US-Pest ?
> 
> If I sound bitter it's because I am. We just got our line repaired for
> the second time in less than three weeks. We are about midway between
> the two closest COs and the prospects of ever getting DSL look dismal.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Kevin
> 
> kallen3@icircus.net wrote:
> > 
> > Costs will vary. The Cisco 675 external router runs around $199 but US
> > West will run special where the cost for the router will be $0 to $50 (you
> > do not want the internal). Then there is the cost for the service
> > itself. And yes there are other DSL providers, COVAD is one that comes to
> > mind and there will be more as uswest complies with line
> > de-regulations. But those providers are usually more expensive for the
> > service and the speed they provide are lower than the entry speed of 256k by
> > megabit (uswest) from what I've seen.
> > 
> > >
> > > Can someone please tell me the cost associated with buying equipment for
> > > having DSL at home, and where I can get it? Do I have to go through
> > > uswest to get everything set up?
> > >
> > >
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Kevin O'Connor
> 
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> white
> light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God.
> In
> a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX
> SYSTEM
> FOR THE 386."
> (Matt Welsh)
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