 tatbh @nycmny.fios.verizon. | What competition? Talk about the black hole! There are many backwater towns in this country without so much as a DSL line, was that the kind of 2 pipe coast to coast competition he was talking about, or only metropolitan cities, some of which are barely getting dsl, and small, antiquated fiber nodes just rather recently (2-3 years).
What about next generation GPON fiber to the home!! Where the hell is it? Why hasn't it arrived YESTER_FRIGGEN_DAY!!! Greed, foot dragging, and other nonsense, We should have 100/100mbit coast to coast already, while countries like S. Korea laugh at our 768kbit dsl lines. Oooh, 768kbit faxmodems V.Stupid modulation
There will be a generation cycle (10-20 years) before broadband really gets going again, by that time the 40yr olds generation who was the key demographic in the '90s will just about be heading for the old age home. The sense of urgency to build things in this country has stopped, we'll have to outsource it to other contries, and import it back in, pre-fabricated fiber strung on telephone poles all ready to stomp into the ground, and then hire undocumented workers to come and install it. Si' fiber node go here.. |