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Logan 5
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The WasteLAN
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What about those in rural areas or who are unable to otherwise take advantage of this??
All these "Speeds 'N Feeds" look impressive on paper, but when sub 56k dialup is not an option, Satellite unreliable and Cellular Broadband too cost prohibitive....what then?
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TKJunkMail
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| said by Logan 5  :What about those in rural areas or who are unable to otherwise take advantage of this?? All these "Speeds 'N Feeds" look impressive on paper, but when sub 56k dialup is not an option, Satellite unreliable and Cellular Broadband too cost prohibitive....what then? Move.
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TKJunkMail
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Re: awesome
said by royalpalm :evolving technology is beautiful:) Looks like Verizon has a good plan in place. Now they just have to keep rolling out their platform to all the major housing concentrations in their territory.
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mishaq
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Re: Sounds good...but
Heh, exactly. I can feel for those who care to move out to the sticks to get away from the suburbs/cities, but wanting Verizon to spend 10s of thousands of dollars in labor and equipment costs to get like a handful of subscribers is awful. Who ends up paying for it? Me with my bills and the associated taxes.
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ptrowski
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vz_guy
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I assume the author meant Herndon, VA, not Hampton Roads.
Also, do they even proof these articles?
"In the near term, that means offering FiOS TV services that start with basic analog radio frequency (RF) channels — which other telcos using IPTV cannot providing — as will as IPTV-based video-on-demand (VOD) options,..."
as will as???
cannot providing???
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Karl Bode
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John Galt
Forward, March
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| said by Karl Bode :Yeah, that may just be the ugliest paragraph ever written. They need to find someone with gooder grammar and more better English than that.
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Lee GWB
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Allendale, NJ | Holy Smokes! I said it before I'll say it again. WIN WIN for the consumer
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Paulg
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| reply to John Galt
said by John Galt :said by Karl Bode :Yeah, that may just be the ugliest paragraph ever written. They need to find someone with gooder grammar and more better English than that. or better grammer 
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Iridium
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Los Angeles, CA | So you need to pay those prices
in addition to regular fiber service? |
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Nightfall
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Grand Rapids, MI
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| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Sounds good...but
said by TKJunkMail :said by Logan 5 :What about those in rural areas or who are unable to otherwise take advantage of this?? All these "Speeds 'N Feeds" look impressive on paper, but when sub 56k dialup is not an option, Satellite unreliable and Cellular Broadband too cost prohibitive....what then? Move. Unfortunately, that is the only solution.
People here on BBR constantly point at Japan and wonder why they have 100 megabit connections and wonder why we don't have anything like that here. A lot of it has to do with population and area. In Japan, there is a huge percentage of people who buy into that fast internet access. Here, broadband adoption is much much less AND we just don't have that kind of population density like Japan has. I think New York may be pretty close though when I last looked at the population figures, but I can't remember to be honest.
The key is those rural areas are going to be without this technology. Its unfortunate, but the companies deploying this technology is looking to make money while doing it. They aren't looking to take a loss while spending tens of thousands of dollars on getting 1-2 subscribers in some area in BFE.
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Logan 5
Wondering what happens next..
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join:2001-05-25
The WasteLAN
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to Logan 5
Meh.... It's SO easy for those who have the ability to take advantage of this to look down their noses at those who can't...
I also mentioned about those who are otherwise unable to take advantage of this which has nothing to do at all with "living in the sticks".
What makes ANYONE think that all metropolitian areas will have FIOS any decade soon??
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, in a city of over 350,000 residents. There are 2 CO's in my town. One I am too far away from and the other will only get me 1.5/384 aDSL service because even though my DSL line has been tested out at being able to reliably handle the 3mbps tier, SBC refuses to give me faster service saying that "I am too far away", and they have abandonded their plans of putting a RT in my area (Project Pronto) instead opting for adsl/fiber IPTV with Project Lightspeed.
I should not have to resort to paying for dialup just to keep my email address that I've had since 1999, cancelling my service and going with another provider who can hopefully get me something faster. I do NOT live in a rural or unincorporated area but am caught in the middle of Corporate Greed and as a result, am getting a screwjob... I have the money to afford faster, I WANT faster, but at the same time I do not think I am being unreasonable in wanting SBC to give it to me.
So again, all the Optimum Online's, Verizon's and everyone else scrambling to roll out fiber doen't really mean much to people like me who will likely never be able to take advantage of it anyway.
Must be nice for those who can eh?  |
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AMDUSER
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| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: awesome
said by TKJunkMail :said by royalpalm :evolving technology is beautiful:) ".. Now they just have to keep rolling out their platform to all the major housing concentrations in their territory. It will be nice when this becomes available in exGTE parts of WI. |
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vpoko
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join:2003-07-03
Jamaica Plain, MA
| reply to Logan 5
Re: Sounds good...but
said by Logan 5 :Meh.... It's SO easy for those who have the ability to take advantage of this to look down their noses at those who can't... I also mentioned about those who are otherwise unable to take advantage of this which has nothing to do at all with "living in the sticks". What makes ANYONE think that all metropolitian areas will have FIOS any decade soon?? I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, in a city of over 350,000 residents. There are 2 CO's in my town. One I am too far away from and the other will only get me 1.5/384 aDSL service because even though my DSL line has been tested out at being able to reliably handle the 3mbps tier, SBC refuses to give me faster service saying that "I am too far away", and they have abandonded their plans of putting a RT in my area (Project Pronto) instead opting for adsl/fiber IPTV with Project Lightspeed. I should not have to resort to paying for dialup just to keep my email address that I've had since 1999, cancelling my service and going with another provider who can hopefully get me something faster. I do NOT live in a rural or unincorporated area but am caught in the middle of Corporate Greed and as a result, am getting a screwjob... I have the money to afford faster, I WANT faster, but at the same time I do not think I am being unreasonable in wanting SBC to give it to me. So again, all the Optimum Online's, Verizon's and everyone else scrambling to roll out fiber doen't really mean much to people like me who will likely never be able to take advantage of it anyway. Must be nice for those who can eh? So are you saying that Verizon should bite the bullet and spend trillions of dollars to wire the entire country at once? |
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John Galt
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Happy Camp | reply to Paulg
Re: article corrections
Maybe someone from here could help:
Grammer, IN
Zip code: 47236
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TellMeMoreLies
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| Empty Promises From A Gutless Company!
I just stopped in to BASH Verizon for not being able to deploy any network services in the dense suburbs of Los Angeles County! I think they're hoping to lure investors with all this bullshit! These losers can't even handle their existing DSL network! |
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Zorglub
join:2000-11-18
Fremont, CA
| reply to Logan 5
Re: Sounds good...but
Japan gets fast broadband access because of 1) high population density and 2) unbundling which forces the incumbent to compete with the newcomers.
In the US, we have large areas with high population density but the FCC all but killed unbundling... |
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sweintz
Premium
join:2002-03-01
Hamden, CT
| reply to royalpalm
Re: awesome
um, yes it is beautiful.
But the fact that it is a PON is not so beautiful.
(PON = shared system. they use optical splitters and everyone uses one fiber)
why couldn't they have spent the $$$ and pulled fiber from CO to each customer? |
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