| Hello - not like cable was any different I guess the cable companies want you to conveniently forget that we (the taxpayers) subsidized and in many cases outright paid to string their cables so they could make money from our fees.
Fios isn't a right, it's a priveledge. Dell isn't required to price the same to businesses as you the home user. Business week flying costs more than weekend flights. There are conditions in all markets in which a company can decided the conditions are not good enough to put out a service. This isn't new, and its not just telecom's, but any business. And all kinds of industries leverage governments to increase the incentive for their products.
People just want Fios, well a great deal do. And with any such product, the withholding of it from a population is a strong incentive to meet the conditions the company wants for deployment. The alternative is to deploy it ourselves. That is an option. But we should be upset if it's one we find distasteful. This is just the nature of getting what you want, what the companies want, and ultimately even what you might, as a shareholder, want in the end. It is just one big balancing act.
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| One important point is, the majority dont need it. I certainly dont. I dont want IPTV, when i can get cable and have it on all my sets without a converter. If Verizon wants to hold back let them, and Cable has and will fill in the gaps quite nicely. Also satellite has further pushed Verizon into a less competitve spot. |
| jsut beause you dont want it doesnt mean the rest of us dont need it .... by the way we all love high prices ...the last time i checked my phone bill has gone down and my high speed internet connection price has gone way down ..if it was up to comcrap we would all be paying 50$+ per month for high speed internet. competition is a great thing...now thanks to verizon with fios docsis 3 is coming soon rather then later thanks to verizon and there fios push ... |
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Littleton, CO | There's not a spec for DOCSIS 3.0 yet, so we're still a long way off. Matter of fact, I know of only one box on the market that can actually separate the QAM and Scheduler right now (and it's not Cisco). The MSO's will probably not start certifying and testing 3.0 solutions until very late 2006 if that soon. Deployment obviously will follow that. With DOCSIS 3.0, there will be IP based Downstream (and upstream) channel bonding technologies so the ability to increase speed to the user is there (as long as the cable plant has adjacent 6Mhz channels to bond).
But, this technology should be interesting.
At this time, Fios looks well priced and the service looks good (I'm not sure about reliability) if you are lucky enough to live in a service area. Eventually they should be able to increase homes passed...but, it is very expensive for telcos to build this service into their infrastructure. So, time is necessary...
It's funny reading posts by people that are not in the industry, but try to talk like they are. It really provides a little humor to a day's work.
The dollar sign post is one of those. I've seen people (in the USA) use dollar signs at the end of an expression if the dollar amount is an estimate. I haven't seen it a bunch, but a few times. I find it acceptable. If the poster is not from here, let him be. That's what America is really about, isn't it? Melting pot of personalities, freedom of speech and expression, etc? Oh, unless he's talking about the white separtist Amerikkka that doesn't hold the whole meting pot thing as relative.
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