AT&T's VDSL 5,000 Foot Challenge > Sigh

said by Anonymous-1 :

It's not as simple as going to fiber. The reason that AT&T decided to use existing copper (at least for now) in the first place was the cost of the boxes that switch the fiber signal. For FTTP, you need one of these expensive boxes at every home. For FTTN, you need only one for every 100-500 homes (depending on how many homes each node supplies). Also, if you read actual customer reports, they are getting upwards of 75-90 mbps within range and there have been many instances of 25mbps or greater past 25mbps. Uverseusers.com has plenty of good info on this.

said by asdfghjklzx5:

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