“Jeff Gerhardt, CEO of GeekCast and co-host of The Linux Show!!
today announced,”a series of new alliances are being forged to
offer a multi-tiered service approach to providing DSL services to
individuals and corporations in the Linux Community. The program
will be managed by our flagship ISP partner IbssNet.Com an all
Linux ISP in Illinois. This consortium of CLECs, ISPs and specialty
service providers that we have assembled, we hope will solve some
of the problems now being experienced by people with DSL
providers.”
“Pretty much everyone has a DSL ‘WAR STORY’ ” said
Gerhardt. “After administering the previous version of our DSL
program we learned a great deal, primarily from the PAIN of our
staff and our subscribers. We had contracts with BOTH Starnet and
Zyan. The former got out of the DSL business and the later is now
in bankruptcy court, so we have learned more than we cared
too.”
“Kevin Hill, the other Co-host of The Linux Show added, “It is
our HOPE that the new program is going to speed installs. With the
collapse of a number of the DSL ISP last fall, install times on
replacement and new DSL circuits were running three MONTHS in many
areas of the US. It is going to be a bit tougher to manage from a
clerical perspective, but the multi-tiered concept will give us
access to NAS, and some of the other regional providers. So, we
will be able to operate what is basically a DSL clearing house that
will allow us to provision users with whatever service seems to be
getting installed fastest in a regional area at a given time. The
cost of installs may also become marginally higher to pull this
off.”