Talk:Covad

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The article currently has hints of biasedness. Someone should edit to provide a more neutral point of view. I'm sure there are criticisms of Covad in one form or another.

I think that this article should go into detail about the SDSL (Symmetreical Digital Subscriber Lines) companies. What sets Covad apart is that they still exist. When SDSL came on the scene in 1999, T1 lines were still priced at $3000 per month and were (and still are) only available through the incumbent telcos. SDSL was introduced and had T1 speeds for under $600 per month. The SDSL line was still installed by the incumbent telcos and was a set of copper. Guess what? The incumbents could never find any clean pairs of copper to install the lines. I'd estimate that 20% of SDSL orders placed with SBC were actually turned up. This devastated the SDSL carriers and also the ISP market which had embraced reselling SDSL. The other SDSL companies I can recollect were Zyan Communications, NorthPoint Communications, NewEdge Networks and Rythems Communications and I'm sure there's probably around 3 more. 2 years later only two of these companies still existed; Covad and New Edge. Covad differed from New Edge in marketing strategy. Covad competed in NFL cities (like NY and LA) where as New Edge went after tier 2 smaller cities like Lubbock or Little Rock. By 2002 only Covad and New Edge remained and Covad was in serious financial crisis. After talk of chapter 7 proceedings, in a suprise move, SBC bought into Covad affectively ceasing the liquidation (I can't recall the amount and don't know how to find it) and now owns quite a bit of Covad. As to why they saved Covad after almost wiping them out is left to the imagination. Perhaps its becuase they got to buy in for pennies on the dollar and could now control Covad who had gradually inherited all of the other SDSL provider's customers. Or maybe it was to fend off the argument in court that the ILEC's had sabotaged the SDSL market? Now the ILEC's could point to Covad and say that they were successful so all of the other companies were just mis-managed.

Any thoughts? Rockydallas 18:42, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Covad dsl is going away with the isp work for. I think they have folded it into sbc. All covad customers have been canceled and covad isn't returning our calls. Anon-E-Mouse.


 * You're wrong about Covad specializing in symmetric connections. Their retail ISP operation seems to specialize in business DSL, but they actually do most of their business as providers of DSL connections to other ISPs, such as Speakeasy. These are mostly asymetric connections. I believe that Covad originally didn't offer retail DSL at all, but branched out after so many of the ISPs that were using them went out of business. Isaac R (talk) 02:39, 14 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ernestvoice (talk • contribs)
 * I didn't remove it because I disagreed, I removed it because it was an unsigned comment that looked like a prank. Please sign your comments. --Isaac R (talk) 19:56, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Move some material to MegaPath article?
In 2010, three companies -- Speakeasy, Covad, and MegaPath -- merged. The resulting company was named MegaPath.

Two of these have their own Wikipedia articles: Speakeasy (ISP) and Covad. But there is no Wikipedia article for MegaPath, even though it is the successor to both of these companies that do have articles.

I think a MegaPath article should be created. Then, the information about the MegaPath company after the 2010 merger should be moved to that article.

Does anyone disagree? &mdash; Lawrence King ( talk ) 17:05, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

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