wow - long time no post...The Future: Cogent Communications, a provider of metro-area internet access, offers 100-Mbps connections for a fixed price of $1000/month. To provide comparable speeds, traditional carriers, with their outdated equipment, would have to equip customers with either a fixed OC-3 line (155 Mbsp) or two DS3 lines (45 Mbps ea), which would cost anywhere between $75,000 -$150,000/month. In short, why pay for costly channelized connectivity when you are not getting the value from it? Another company in this space is Yipes.