Chris 313
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Someone gets it right! Equal speeds up and down. What I could do with 10/10. Hell, I'd probably go for the 100/100 if it wasn't too expensive.
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TKJunkMail
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4 edits | Doing some checking I find that OEN has a deal with Houston fiber company Phonoscope which already is running past 250,000 residences. »www.4fiber.tv/OENAssets/pressRel···unch.pdf Phonoscope also claims they are within 500 meters of 1.6 million homes in the Houston area. If this news is accurate, OEN could expand relatively quickly.
The symmetrical internet link is enticing as is their triple play capability. SBC could really hate to see this roll out and be successful. The question is "will they be successful"? A startup company with big ideas like this needs a lot of investment money. Can they get it during the years while money is going out a lot faster than it is coming in?
And Fision is the product name. The name of the company is Optical Entertainment Network. »www.4fiber.tv/ Here is a nice drawing of their planned Houston endeavor: »www.4fiber.tv/fisionToTheHome.htm
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devil24
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Can't wait for this one! |
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quetwo
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It's another company, and not a muni! No (constitutional) laws, or politics are going to stop this one. |
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djrobx
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Re: Finally!
Fission? Seems like a play on the name "Fios".
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said by Chris 313  :Someone gets it right! Equal speeds up and down. What I could do with 10/10. Hell, I'd probably go for the 100/100 if it wasn't too expensive. Lucky people... EXACTLY! Symetrical is what fiber is supposed to be! 
5/5 would be enough to keep me happy!
Man, 10/10 as the standard service sure makes Verizon look like a Turd Sandwich! LOL!
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said by TKJunkMail :Doing some checking I find that OEN has a deal with Houston fiber company Phonoscope which already is running past 250,000 residences. » www.4fiber.tv/OENAssets/pressRel···unch.pdf Phonoscope also claims they are within 500 meters of 1.6 million homes in the Houston area. If this news is accurate, OEN could expand relatively quickly. Phonoscope, huh? They used to provide TV directly to a lot of places (mostly apartments/condos) around Houston, then they sold their residential business (to OpTel, now known as TVMax) to focus on the commercial market, and now they're back in the residential cable business, as themselves (that's what accounts for the 250k homes passed figure.)
Houston is really a bit of an anomaly -- most cities don't have that sort of deep competitive fiber build. Atlanta certainly doesn't outside of the major business districts...in most residential areas and in the suburbs in general, the only fiber there is belongs to BellSouth and Comcast or Charter. 
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said by dadkins :said by Chris 313 :Someone gets it right! Equal speeds up and down. What I could do with 10/10. Hell, I'd probably go for the 100/100 if it wasn't too expensive. Lucky people... EXACTLY! Symetrical is what fiber is supposed to be! 5/5 would be enough to keep me happy! Sure, but when they are giving out 10/10 as standard, and even higher packages, who complains? People like us certainly wouldn't.
On another note, I'd be thrilled to see their prices. |
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Ok I am officially jealous. I think I need to email these folks and see if they want to set up shop near me. LOL
I think they are going about it the right way. With VOIP you need high up speeds for it to sound good. Most ISPs don't get that. In their defense I can see them not wanting to help out file traders.
It will be interesting to see what kind of price is for all this. Unless they over price things or the service sucks I don't see how this could fail. Though I am left wondering what the TOS will look like. LOL |
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Re: Finally!
said by djrobx :Fission? Seems like a play on the name "Fios". -- Rob I'll take a stab at the FISION(only 1 S) acronym.
FI Fiber
SI SImmetrical (I know that isn't how symmetrical is spelled)
ON Optical Network
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Just bring some of that Symetrical fiber this way!
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Yeah, I suppose they could twist my arm 'til I took 10/10 as the minimum... LOL!
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| said by dadkins :Yeah, I suppose they could twist my arm 'til I took 10/10 as the minimum... LOL! Believe me, a higher minimum speed is ALWAYS better. It was really nice to see them offering package that REALLY make fiber capability shine...Well, as much shine as can be without having a setup like Japan, etc. has. |
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cyberbeing
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| Sounds good
If they deliver what they are promising I would be impressed. What this company is proposing is a big step up from what Surewest offers. Surewest currently offers only 10Mbps and 20Mbps symmetrical connection along with the triple-play voip phone and iptv. Fision says they are going to offer all a 50, 75, and 100Mbps tier and offer more channels for TV. This is what I wish surewest would do. If all goes well for this company I would be envious.
Here is my guess on what base pricing would be.
$40-50 10Mbps
$70-90 25Mbps
$100-125 50Mbps
$150-175 75Mbps
$200-250 100Mbps
If you expect it to cost a lot less than that here in the US you are crazy. If this company prices it much higher than that then they are just being greedy. If they set prices lower I would be shocked considering how much it costs to install a high-speed fiber network. |
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itsallgoodtome
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Without competitive pricing, QOS, cutomer service, reasonable deployment scale and time-frames.. its all a bunch of vaporware!!
Hopefully, 25-100megabit symmetrical pricing will blow FIOS out of the water!! This might give them incentive, especially if they move it up north towards Dallas suburbs, tee-hee. |
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houstontarge
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Re: Sounds good
Well, I'm signed up on their early registration list, but have not heard anything about availability or prices yet, hopefully it will develop soon, 10/10, would be a dream come true |
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Minvaren
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Re: Finally!
Optel turned into TVMax? That explains some things... |
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cyberbeing
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Re: Sounds good
Has anybody in their test neighborhood in houston noticed any work being done. Like streets being dug up or people working on telephone poles. I am curious if they have started laying fiber yet or if this early sign-up is more of a market prospect thing to see if people are interested. For all you know they don't even have construction permits yet. It would probably take at least 6 months for them to get a network built and up and running properly so unless they have already started it may be awhile before you see these services.
I don't think it is a coincidence that the service is similar to Surewest who bought Winfirst when they went bankrupt. Winfirst was originally planning to build 100Mbps fiber networks in Sacramento, San Diego, Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and Las Vegas. Sacramento was the only area that was deployed before they went bankrupt. They already had regulatory approval to build a network in Texas and that left it open for another company to provide what Winfirst was never able to. Now this company seems to be filling the void that Winfirst left when they went bankrupt. Its also worth noteing that it seems like from the video they are using the same Amino equipment that Winfirst used. |
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Pic's of the fiber on my block here in pearland TX sub of Houston. Its all ready to go.I waiting for it to go live.
Ps for all you SBC lovers if this works SBC is dead b4 they even get out of the House. Hmm maybe they (sbc/ATT) can learn something for this. I can only hope but they are dumb so who knows |
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vinnie97
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Re: Its a speculative move.
said by itsallgoodtome :
especially if they move it up north towards Dallas suburbs, tee-hee. Here here. |
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