IP: A Fight for Survival in the Broadband Wreckage

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

A Fight for Survival in the Broadband Wreckage

By WILLIAM SANTIAGO



http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/technology/28COVA.html

Up to its knees in uncollected bills from customers that resell its 
high-speed Internet connections, suffering from a battered stock price, 
relying on competitors to deliver its product and caught in a severe market 
downturn, Covad Communications may be facing a technology-sector version of 
the perfect storm.

The company, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has become a case study in the 
tumultuous history of the market for broadband Internet access, a market 
spawned by the 1996 Telecommunications Act.



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