There are four different alternatives today for high-speed Internet access. This report includes a description of each alternative, whether MassCom can profitably adopt it or whether it may be a competitor, and the costs and profits associated with the most logical choice for MassCom, the cable modem. In this report following points will be examined:

· Demand for High Speed Internet Access

· D.S.L.

· B.P.L.

· Wireless

· Cable Modem

· Costs and profits

Demand for Broadband:

Now that the Internet offers a multitude of service, but the dial up connection is too slow to take advantage of these services. Dial-up is an expensive way of connection; furthermore it ties up phone lines during the connection and is unreliable. All of these have produced an increasing demand for broadband technologies, which are providing high speed Internet access.

D.S.L.

D.S.L., which stands for Digital Subscriber Line...