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Why
purchase a T1 when SDSL is so much cheaper?
sDSL offers 1.5 Mbps at a much lower price than T1 service. What’s
the difference between these two products?
Not all customers can receive 1.5 Mbps SDSL service, but all customers
in serviced Central Offices can receive T1 Service. Because of technical
limitations of the DSL protocol, only those customers less than
10,000 feet from their CO can receive 1.5 Mbps SDSL. However, T1s
are engineered to extend tens of miles, so almost all customers
of a serviced CO can purchase T1 service. In addition, the local
exchange carrier will remove bridge taps, load coils, and splices
from the wiring when provisioning a T1; they won’t do this
for a DSL circuit.
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