Wholesale price restructuring and retail price competition during 2004 has made infrastructure ownership a more viable option for ISPs which once concentrated on a retail-only business.

This made 2004 a boom year for new DSL deployments, with six companies announcing rollouts totalling in excess of 70,000 ports.

Telsyte's new research note, DSL Broadband Infrastructure: Understanding the Rationale Behind the Surge in DSLAM Deployment, provides a market snapshot of these deployments.

In this report, Telsyte profiled companies whose DSL infrastructure plans became public during 2004, including:

Adam Internet;
Amcom;
IiNet;
Netspace;
OnTheNet; and
TSN Internet.