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But, perhaps the best summing up of the conference was
by Dr William Webb, technical marketing manager for Motorola UK. He bemoaned the incredibly wide choice of access
technologies available today.
Rather than such choice being the panacea the free market claims it is, Webb believes, "Years ago it was easy
to get access to the customers, drop some copper. There was no choice, no confusion, no complexity."
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Today, however what providers and customers are seeing,
he noted, is a continuous stream of new technologies and issues. "The problem", he explained, "is
that as these new technologies come along, the old ones don't just disappear. Instead they're also around and we're
faced with a full gamut of choices - ADSL, cable modem, Wireless Local Loop and all the rest. None of these have
been shown not to work or not to be economical."
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