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kudos:3 | said by stonecolddsl:I personally hate cable but wouldnet the logical thing to do with the coax bandwith issue is to do what Verizon is doing which is Fiber to the premise. It would envlove spending money that the cable industry hates to do. Ummm.. care to rethink that one? Cable has spent a BUTT LOAD of money in the past years on system upgrades, rebuilds, new end user equipment, etc.
In case you haven't noticed too, cable's fiber is already in the very close neighborhood.. cable can easily push fiber to the home, if they wanted to. It's not simply a matter of money.
If you remove emotion and look at the cold hard facts, because of consumer spending desires, fiber to the home is NOT cost effective. Add the cost of running the plant, with the installation, to the required home equipment, it's going to take verion a LONG time to recoup their costs. |
