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| | Regrets Bellsouth is going to regret wasting their time with adsl+ (or whatever they want to call it) 5-10 years down the road when they're being buried because their lines can transmit only one television station at a time.
I can just imagine the advertising from cable and satellite companies pointing out the drastic limitations of their foolish service.
They should be working on distributing fiber as fast as they can RIGHT now. Not upgrading DSLAMs to handle slightly faster (but still heavily distance limited) next gen adsl. | |
|   imrfPremium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI | Re: Regrets I agree, SBC is doing to same lame thing. Run FTTH or don't waste your time and our money. | |
| |  CorvusFlaming Tards Since 2003Premium,VIP
join:2003-11-26 | Re: Regrets said by imrf:I agree, SBC is doing to same lame thing. Run FTTH or don't waste your time and our money. You think running fiber in the home (for PCs, TVs, phones) is cheaper?
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| | | imrfPremium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI
1 edit | Re: Regrets In the long run yes. If they do this half-assed system they are doing now, it will cost them more in the long run. The technology BS and SBC are going to use, completely sucks for tv service, and it will bite them in the end. | |
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But then again, if they allready have a fiber backbone linking their offices, etc, they have the core in place and the only requirement would be to replace the trunks up on the poles with fiber and make drops to the house. You dont have to bury fiber cable, I'm sure and since they allready have the rights of way, it would be relatively easy and a lot cheaper.
It's one thing to bury cable in the suburbs, but it's quite another to do so in urban areas. Verizon may be burying cable in new developments (like comcast and the electric company did here when they wired drops to some new houses), but once they start in metro urban areas, burying fiber will simply not be a good option in most cases.
Besides, I dont care how they do it, just do it. | |
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join:2002-01-22
00000 | exactly. this will be an interesting decade. i wonder when sbc/bell south will wise up and switch to fiber? i think it'll be sooner rather than later. they are gonna be caught with their pants down.
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| | imrfPremium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI | Re: Regrets said by morbo:i think it'll be sooner rather than later. I'm not as optimistic as you are about this. SBC has historically done stupid things, and this will be another one.
they are gonna be caught with their pants down. Yes they will, and it will be great to see it happen to them too. | |
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| | What makes you think that BellSouth isn't running Fiber in their region, just keeping it relatively quiet? And if not, a company has an obligation to its stockholders to provide the best return it possibly can on existing infrastructure, all the while creating new technologies that will be able to be rolled out to take the place of POTS. Your wants and desires move forward at a much faster rate than the change of pace in the technology industry. Be patient....it took 100 or so years for the telegraph to morph into the telephone, and from there to dialup/faxing, cable, wireless, DSL, VOIP, etc. And these most recent technological advancements have just come about in the last 30 or so years. Hold your horses Man! Technology will catch up with you before long. | |
| | | | Re: Regrets They do. It has been reported that in some area SBC is doing FTTH. | |
| | | | Never said they weren't. However, if they were wiring for the next century now they really shouldn't bother setting up a system designed to hold people over for the next 2-3 years. ADSL2,+, or whatever they want to call it - will end up being made pointless one of two ways. Either the cableCo blows them out of the water with the superior bandwidth and useability of coaxial, or the phone companies go ahead, see the error of their ways and hunker down for the hard road of wiring their area for the next century of service - fiber optics.
So either way they're wasting time and money the way I see it. | |
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