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Re: He're is AT&Ts plan Or here's my list of predictions:
lose POTS customers in droves.
lose wireless customers in droves (churn).
file the largest telcom bankruptcy in history.
churn customers to the competition permanently from weak IPTV, broadband speeds and lackluster deployment.
go out of business.
at&t memorabilia becomes collectors items.
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AT&T will realize (just like verizon) sooner or later they will have to invest heavily in providing adequate bandwidth all the way to the home and higher symmetrical rates on a future-proof network. AT&T can't rely on brand name alone to keep its customers.. if it deploys an inferior network and it translated to poor end-customer experience.. they will not have customers to speak of that won't even justify deployments which they claim are 1/4th what fttp spends to deploy. AT&T is betting that cable companies won't eat their lunch with docsis 2.0/3.0 in the coming years.. I'd be willing to bet money that they will (in the ares where they have or will deploy docsis 2.0/3.0 in 2007/2008).
Verizon kept upgrading local central offices (primarily in the northeast) with and to fiber migrating old switching systems to soft switches, etc and the last piece of the puzzle was to deploy fiber to the home. AT&T has networks that probably are heavily antiquated copper, load coils, etc.. this stuff needs to be retired and must work on a plan to change this to fiber sooner rather than later. |
