said by Surfinusa 
:When companies have motivation then you will see fiber or higher speeds on Copper.
Until then what's there motivation.
Give away an OC-3 to a residential customer for 69.95 a month?
Not going to happen at the moment.
But if your willing to shell out the $$ you can have it today, if you can't wait till tomorrow.
No one's going to leapfrog Verizon on the bandwidth bandwagon anytime soon. They are thinking about PONs not gpons or anything near hundreds to thousands of megabits to the home. The sheer bandwidth costs have not come in-line with being affordable (in addition to deployment costs). That's not to say some crazy micro deployments wouldn't "just do it" and worry about profits much later down the road... of course in theory that's what got MCI thrown into bankruptcy for lining their uunet/backbone links with gobs of bandwidth at a time it wasn't needed and cost boatloads of money to deploy. Assets Verizon now leverages for pennies on the dollar.
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