said by Rick:I really don't understand your point. Everyone, whether it's cable, fios or uverse..is delivering their service via a single line and so they're all prone to having that go out.
Out of the three though, I think that AT&T clearly and without doubt has the most risk with their reliance on their last mile old copper network.
It served them well for a long time when it was just landlines we were talking about, but even with DSL..it's limitations became clear. I'm simply at a loss as to how they now want to deliver hdtv..hsi and voice all in one via it.
And, I think the mere fact they're even trying to do so shows their desperation to be anything at all in this game at this point.
The problem with that is I just think the simple fact of the matter is the vast majority of people don't want it.
And those numbers are now starting to become more than painfully evident. Two and one half million people can now reportedly get the service. And a whopping 100,000 took it.
And that INCLUDES their own corporate backyard and all the employees they've probably shoved this down their throats too.
Think about it. If their goal is to pass 18 million homes..at that rate they'll wind up with 700,000 customers nationwide for this new next generation disaster of theirs.
I had hopes that their new CEO might have a brain in his head when it comes to this writing on the wall, but I guess not.
Docsis 3.0 is coming. FIOS is here.
What the hell is AT&T Uverse in the face of all that?
Plan the funeral now folks. Order the casket..and the flowers.
This funerals going to be a doozy.
Uverse is a poorly planned delivery system, this is why Bell Atlantic (core of Verizon) vaporized the idea in 1996-2000, instead laying the central office fiber under ground where possible.. in the northeast. Sooner or later DSL must be extricated and removed from the last mile and central offices.. no one will want to buy it as it will be so obsolete and fiber so dirt cheap by that time.
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