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Banks, OR | reply to tmc8080
Re: clec becoming an ilec? said by tmc8080:TO DATE, many of the areas which do not have 10+megabits broadband DO NOT HAVE SUCH service for a darn good reason.. this is primarily because it is not financially profitable to deploy such a network there, yet... Are you sure about that? Many industry experts, e.g., Dave Burnstein, say DSL can be deployed profitably just about anywhere. Even the CEO of AT&T has been quoted as saying so. Not to mention the small independent telcos that seem to be able to deploy broadband with greater penetration than Verizon.
I'm not sure even Verzon has said it would be be unprofitable to deploy in the Fairpoint territory, but rather it would be "less profitable" than they would like; i.e., they see a greater ROI in doing other things with their CAPEX - like deploying FIOS to those customers that already have DSL. It's irrelevent to them that this strategy means locking millions of their other subs out of any broadband at all. |
