| reply to Verizonnotstupid
Re: They don't want to lose DSL customers It is multiple reasons.
- follow the revenue to gain money: go for affluent areas for dollar-per-fiber-mile; plumb rural ones where DSL was not an option and pick up cable/sat customer; where there's already multi-tenant agreements, working in risers and hallways can be fast
- avoid revenue losses: while a truck roll is a truck roll, copper plant maintenance is expensive; only overbuild dsl where there's serious competition from a cable provider, or where they have likely video franchises in-hand; target new customers over upgrading existing customers (maybe?)
- there's bound to be more, but it is never "just one" reason behind a deployment strategy and I need more coffee |
