said by Ryan:One thing I do understand that they have a right to impose limits, but the way broadband it handled right now in most areas it just sickens me. For one thing my area Attleboro which was also mentioned in the news article use to have diverse cable providers. Attleboro had media one then went to at&t and north attleboro had time warner I beleive. Same with the surrounding towns. Then comcast comes and munches everything up...
It is my understanding that AT&T bought Comcast. Well, the AT&T that David Dorman shed, anyway. AT&T Broadband Internet was spun off from the rest of AT&T by David Dorman; who went on to get eaten up by SBC.
I was told that ATTBI bought Comcast, then changed the company name to Comcast.
Of course comcast is now in bed with the politicians and government in southern-mass making fios growth a standstill.
That makes absolutely no sense. FiOS is at a standstill because FTTP is a capital intensive project. SBC (now AT&T) knew this, and elected to only use FTTP for new communities; deploying FTTN in older neighborhoods.
Comcast is not nearly as wedded to politicians as SBC was (and AT&T now is). Everybody knew that one particular Louisiana representative in the U.S. Congress was just an SBC lapdog.
Edit: Changed "FTTH" to "FTTN". AT&T "U-Verse" mostly rides on FTTN.
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