| It helps keep the investors off their back! That's all you need to understand!
It's not what is real but what is perceived. It's no different than Enron really! All corporations are the same at that level. Enron just took it one step further and turned it into a religion. An evil incestuous religion. |
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Odie97
join:2006-04-19
Oak Creek, WI | ENRON, weren't they were from Texas ... SBC, now at&t they're Texas based now. Haliburton, yep Texas ... and the grand master of it all GWB ... oopps that's not right, Mr. Cheney anyone ... when his name gets into the fray the words evil, incestuous and religion often come up. |
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| i guess this will prove to be "the beginning of the end" for at&t. BAD MANAGEMENT CALL!!!! Make the most of the time you have and deploy ftth before it's too late!!! DOCSIS 3.0 will not have mercy! 6 meg hsi isn't going to cut it! The swanni has spoken.......... |
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| Why would cable deploy DOCSIS 3.0 in stable markets? It makes no sense as cable's service is already superior. |
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| then why is it that cable cannot keep up with verizon? I think you are misinformed to say the least. |
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| reply to grandpinaple
You're kidding, right?
With BPON Verizon is selling down their speed to match cable. To outdo FIOS cable would have to switch to DOCSIS 3.0 and even then Verizon could still blow them away with their GPON conversion. |
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| reply to jtorre69
He is generalizing and you are pointing out the 1 in 100 exception. An extremely small percentage of people have FTTH and that is not changing anytime soon. |
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| reply to grandpinaple
DOCSIS3 is not about the benefit to the end user. It's about the benefit to the provider. It simply gives their network more capacity without having to do major expensive upgrades. It does not mean they will give YOU a bigger piece of that increased capacity. That is more of a competitive issue.
As another poster pointed out, cable is SOoooo far ahead right now (in most markets) that they are in no hurry. They will upgrade when the time is right to make sure they keep their lead. The Telco's are in deep dodo and they know it!
Even with all the talk about FTTH rollouts, the Cable Co's could do the same thing right now for much less as they are already FTTN (node or neighbourhood, same same). Coax has a heck of a lot of capacity already though. I think there would have to be the need for a whole other type of ultra high bandwidth service before coax capacity would start to limit out. |
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| Right, but since when has cable cared about the quality of their networks when you can cap, throttle, and suspend. |
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| reply to phoneboy2
Its all irrelevant. Both technologies will continue to mature and the speeds will get faster and faster.
In the future everyone will have fiber to their homes / businesses and it will be delivered with pretty much any amount of bandwidth you need. All copper will be replaced because it is much more expensive to maintain. They may not do it all at once, but it will happen eventually and at a minimum it will happen when they do a repair.
They are already talking about fiber getting an 80x boost using multiple lights. Copper will never keep up with that and so eventually it will be changed to fiber. |
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