Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. This is the first year DSL is a major offering. With major cutbacks in manpower you would assume that customer relations and support is going to go down. This would be on a national level and the ISP would have to have Covad and or Northpoint presence.
Commercial customers tend to fetch a higher valuation.
The reason I ask the prior question is because a customer of Prodigy is worth much less than a customer of Covad. Prodigy resells its DSL product and therefore commands a much lower gross margin. Covad can carry much more of the top line to the gross margin line since they have their own facilities. This occurs because they do not pay a middle man's markup like Prodigy. Also, you should determine into which of these categories your acquiror or acquiree fits.