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A Lesson Learned From the Telecommunications Industry. “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.
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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.
“…but not very fast.” Glut of bandwidth. LACK OF DEMAND.WHY?
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.
Take care to address the software development and data integration costs required to reach your dreams.