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Ims told FastLane, "There's a lot of talk about
these technologies being much cheaper, having a cost advantage. The point is that you're talking about investing
approximately as much as you have invested already in the existing telephony access network. That's the issue and
that you have to face no matter what technology you choose. So this investment optimization is not so much related
to comparing different technologies in a way. It's more like the way you're using the particular technology.
Three or four years ago there was a lot of comparison of the different technologies on a cost basis, but we've
shown that operators, new or incumbent, will have costs of about oe1000 per access line.
In the US, however, he said, ISDN was a latecomer and was seen as just one more technology. And as Ims pointed
out, technology doesn't sell, service sells.
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Access for developing countries
Frederic Desnoes, telecoms project manager with SITA-Equant, France, told the conference of the value of and need
for wireless technologies, especially in reference to helping bring rural and undeveloped third world countries
into the information age.
"In developing countries up until now," he told FastLane after his presentation, "economic development
could be measured through telephone penetration. In fact in countries
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