 gaforcesUnited We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
2 edits | Qwest Uverse? "We're hearing that Qwest should have some additional FTTH/VDSL deployment news in the next month or two."
Yawn, yawn, ZZZzzzzzzZZzzzz, snore.
I can understand the reasons they cant deploy FTTH, but I have a conflict of interest 
They can lay the fiber, then with VDSL they wouldnt have to upgrade infrastructure as much to support the higher speeds FTTH would require. Laying the fiber now is more cost effective than waiting, because it's not going to get any cheaper in the future.
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | "Laying the fiber now is more cost effective than waiting, because it's not going to get any cheaper in the future."
You base that comment on what, exactly?
Verizon's costs keep going down.
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gaforcesUnited We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | Based on inflation, ye can't buy materials and equipment for the same price now as you could a few years ago.
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Ah, but the price is dropping faster than inflation due to economies of scale and ramped-up production. It is very well documented in the case of FTTH that Verizon is driving the market. At some point in the near future the cost of fiber plant will cross below the cost of copper plant and the entire game changes.
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gaforcesUnited We Stand, Divided We Fall
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Santa Cruz, CA | When that happens, Awesome! |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to RadioDoc
said by RadioDoc:At some point in the near future the cost of fiber plant will cross below the cost of copper plant and the entire game changes. Thats true. At some point so many telcos will be buying fiber around the world that copper manufacturers will shift their production factories to fiber, when that happen prices rise, and suddenly the beancounters realize that they must goto fiber. We are still a long ways off from that day though. |
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | I don't think we're as far away from there as you do. Telephone (landlines) have a lot of fiber in their networks already and the amount of copper is getting smaller and smaller as remote terminals are deployed. You would be hard pressed to find a continuous copper loop back to the CO in most suburban areas built in the last 20 years.
Even AT&T expects to convert U-Verse to FTTH once the costs make sense.
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