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Comments on news posted 2006-03-23 11:37:12: The latest rumblings from our Comcast forum discuss Comcast's DOCSIS 2. ..
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 suprfli
join:2003-04-27
| This is great!! This is great!! I live in Howard County and was so happy to hear about Fios. I had friends in Reston getting it and I was hoping it would work its way to us. It looks like the county board approving Verizon and Fios has forced Comcast's hand. I love competition. =) BTW, for anyone in Howard County, this is like the new gym that came to town recently and now all of a sudden the CA is upgrading their gyms and offering better prices. Monopolies are a bad thing.
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Derek Hampton
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| needcaffeine
join:2002-05-25
Norristown, PA
| Comcast DOCSIS 2.0 I live in philly area(home to comcast) and I can't get either Fios or DOCSIS 2.0....& Adelphia(pre-selling their market to comcast) put in fiber to up/down my block.
and so...I stay w/ DSL, b/c I get a 3mb all to myself, and I would consider cable. If it was closer to speeds available in the rest of world, and was cheaper.
I pay less for directv w/ all the channels and 3mb dsl then I did for standard cable w/ internet and hbo. | |
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WishIHadFios
@adelphia.net
| Cable companies are missing the point This news tidbit is just another example of how arrogant the cable companies are. Fact is, they have already missed the boat. The problem with their logic that the cable coming into your house is sooo much better than anything else is that it is, in fact, wrong. The fact is even at current speeds, Verizon is STILL taking like 99 percent of the available fiber bandwidth off the table (for QOS for their TV channels...cough getting around government regulations) so even if cable raises their bandwidth up it would be no sweat for Verizon to match it and the cable companies are going to hit the brick wall first. Even if they do not, at some point you hit the law of diminishing returns in which price is going to play the biggest factor. As seen by the news article the cable companies really have no problem charging more for providing less service, because apparently they believe that their act of schlepping around bits and bytes is somehow a better value than Verizon schlepping around the same bits and bytes (which is probably due to their years as monopolies treating customers like lemmings...and yes, us lemmings do have some sort of memory). Now here is where the downfall could begin...as the cable companies cannibalize themselves on a shrinking market share, Verizon takes the lead and becomes the dominant player. In the end, there is a real possibility that Verizon may become the next current monopoly de facto (as in they are not regulated to share any of their new fiber lines to competitors) and so the new becomes the old and the cycle repeats itself...or maybe I am just out of my head... | |
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wiperman
join:2000-08-18
Columbia, MD
| Speed Increase Got It in Howard County Md. | |
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Nooone
@208.17.x.x | q1 additions Added 437,000 high-speed Internet subscribers – highest level of first quarter additions in Company history
Q1 2006, apparently some people still like Comcast. | |
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