A Lesson Learned From the Telecommunications Industry

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A Lesson Learned From the Telecommunications
Industry
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If you build it, they will come

• Qwest Communications
• Born from a railway company who built a rail car
  to lay fiber along their ride-of-way.
• Became the second largest carrier of internet
  traffic overnight with huge amounts of unlit
  fiber.

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but not very fast.

• Glut of bandwidth.
• LACK OF DEMAND. WHY?

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The rate and cost of application development.

• The expected rapid development was not very
  rapid.
• The software development required to create
  integrated responsive online services and
  applications is neither inexpensive nor trivial.
• A limit exists at which an additional amount of
  money or people does not increase the rate of
  progress.

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• Take care to address the software development and
  data integration costs required to reach your
  dreams.