Rhythms has plenty of cash to carry it through 2001. A regional approach may work best. Unlike Covad and other large DSL providers, ConnectSouth has focused on business customers, a market where it has more control than it would wholesaling through others, McHugh says. The destiny of the DSL industry as a whole remains to be seen. Indeed, some argue that the technology itself will lose out eventually to newer developments such as wireless high-speed data transmission.
Consolidation is certainly in the offing.
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