austin01: Re: I thought Chen vouched for the tech at the last shareholders' meeting.
No, he did not. Dr. Chen's presentation discussed the ADSL market, new ADSL technologies, VDSL updates, CPE and home networking, and summarized the results of the VDSL olympics (in which Embarq obviously did not compete). Embarq was only mentioned in one slide entitled "Comparison to Embarq". the chart had some bars and axes labeled "distance" and"throughput", but no legend showing which bars are Embarq and what it was compared to. The chart was therefore pretty much worthless.
At no point in his presentation did he "vouch for the tech".