Power line's greatest appeal in the U.S. is to residential subscribers, who often lack access to any sort of broadband,

You want SSL access to the MPLS cloud. It's not happening yet, but it's the next big wave.

When Motorola and Nokia chime in, I'll believe it.

That was actually on the drawing board for MCI last year. The current Ethernet capabilities that MCI has do not allow for dynamic bandwidth.

[Some analysts say they've seen chronic delays with Qwest.] I've got a [Qwest] customer who is working on a 90-site frame relay network, and it's taken them most of this year to get it installed, and they're beyond frustrated, ... the service is not there when they need to use it.

If technologically and economically feasible, it is unlikely that providers will only offer high-speed Internet access. Most telecom revenues are derived from voice and data-centric providers who ignored voice have had a hard time of making ends meet,