Soekel says ATG will market its services to small businesses aggressively, but he won't reveal its pricing plans. For carriers, that means emphasizing service integration, rather than a single type of service. It's really about offering all services over one infrastructure. In terms of service economics, analysts say that while data traffic is certainly growing, it is voice traffic that gains carriers more revenue per bit. By implementing and selling a new integrated service, carriers essentially can use their voice services to pay for the data.
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The movement to send voice over DSL has the ability to accelerate the pace of DSL deployment. There are a variety of equipment vendors working to these ends as well. In some cases, they are making software upgrades available to their modems. The vendor has partnerships with eight customer premises equipment manufacturers, including FlowPoint. These vendors will license Jetstream's technology and build it into their modems.