| reply to guitarzan
Re: Fear the Fios Cox is desparate. there is no way they can beat fiber to the prem. the best they can do is fiber to the curb. for those that don't know, that means there is still a stretch of copper lines they have to squeeze their bandwidth thru.
fiber lines are much cheaper to maintain, and have a much higher bandwidth capacity. they will be allowing ALL customers to have consistantly over 100meg download speeds in the next couple years. Try doing that on copper. Any stretch of copper at all will cause leakage and signal loss. put it this way, the current lines out there are already super-saturated. try squeezing even more electric signals thru that, and you get even more signal loss. try to pull down consistant speeds that way. its not possible. I challenge all of you copper fanatics to prove that your cable companies will still be competing when FiOS surpasses 50 meg standard. and remember, each FiOS customer has a DEDICATED fiber line to their house, while every cable customer has to share with everyone else. |
