Here are three common myths swirling around cable access for business deployment. Cable is 10 times faster than a V.90 modem connection. This may be true on a good day, but service-level guarantees aren't in the cards. Cox Cable, a prime mover in offering business data access via cable, is still watching usage, and says it has a stated objective of offering service guarantees. Likewise, a MediaOne business customer we interviewed said his usage was handled very carefully as a test case, but he was never given availability or throughput guarantees.
Cable is available only in residential settings.
Still, business offerings are available. MediaOne has some business-adjacent facilities, but the organization does not view commercial data access as a major opportunity. Cox Cable, on the other hand, claims to have 100 percent business coverage in its markets. Those markets, however, do not overlap with the ones in our pricing scenario. Cable is technically inferior to DSL and T1.