More carriers mean more options.
Nobody ever said that picking a service was going to be easy. ET Much of the problem comes back to pricing. We found ATM in the United Kingdom in particular to not be cost-effective, says the network manager at Ford. The United Kingdom is an unusual case because BT really pushes SMDS as a key high-speed transport option, but the story is much the same in the rest of Europe as well. Network managers report that running ATM gear over private circuits is often more cost-effective than building out international ATM services.