Qwest Communications will begin offering a “Choice DSL Premier” service with downlink speeds up to 5 Mbps, which is up to three times faster than Qwest’s previous top speed of 1.5 Mbps. The uplink speed is up to 896 kbps. Customers who order Qwest Choice DSL Premier with MSN Premium for their home will receive the service for $29.99 per month for the first two months with a qualifying Qwest home phone package ($34.99 per month without). After two months, the price is $49.99 per month with a qualifying Qwest home phone package ($54.99 without).
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You just read about DSL. Here is what it replaced:
BPL (Broadband over Power Line) served 2004–2010. What ultimately replaced it?
BPL (Broadband over Power Line) injected high-frequency data signals onto medium/low-voltage power lines, using the electrical grid as the last mile - but radiated interference and noisy lines undid it. Its job passed to DSL — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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