Gunner
join:2004-01-29
Carmel, IN | Qwest will be owned by cable.... Qwest services Denver, which I hardly consider a 'rural area'. And Comcast has been slowly but surely stealing their customers for some time now. My brother and his wife live in Denver, and formerly had Qwest home phone / mobile service. They now have the Comcast triple play, and Verizon wireless and are very happy to be 100% Qwest free. Just keep telling yourself that everything is ok, Mueller. |
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| .....actually FIOS is available in Washington and Oregon state markets now.
»www.bizjournals.com/washington/s···ly9.html
»FiOS TV Hits Oregon
Slowly the Qwest geographic monopoly is being taken over. Good luck Verizon......Good night Mr. Ed. |
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said by Gunner:Qwest services Denver, which I hardly consider a 'rural area'. And Comcast has been slowly but surely stealing their customers for some time now. My brother and his wife live in Denver, and formerly had Qwest home phone / mobile service. They now have the Comcast triple play, and Verizon wireless and are very happy to be 100% Qwest free. Just keep telling yourself that everything is ok, Mueller. And this is why Qwest needs to do something now. They shouldn't wait until there's an outcry before deploying fiber. Otherwise, they'll wake up one morning and discover that they have no customers and are really sunk. |
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And pray Utah is next. |
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CorydonCultivant son jardinPremium
join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO | reply to Gunner
said by Gunner:Qwest services Denver, which I hardly consider a 'rural area'. And Comcast has been slowly but surely stealing their customers for some time now. My brother and his wife live in Denver, and formerly had Qwest home phone / mobile service. They now have the Comcast triple play, and Verizon wireless and are very happy to be 100% Qwest free. Just keep telling yourself that everything is ok, Mueller. Yup, I live in Denver too where Qwest has its headquarters. You'd think they'd be trying to roll something out here to compete with cable, but their offerings are pretty lame. So the old Qwest copper lines aren't hooked up to anything at all in my house and I've had the Comcast Triple Play.
I live in an older, upscale neighborhood (but with a lot of young professional families) in the city of Denver itself. If there's any place where FTTH would work, it's where I live: young, technically savvy folks with disposable incomes. Most people live in single family houses (lots of nice brick Victorian houses...I love this neighborhood!) or duplexes, so laying fiber wouldn't be that hard.
But Qwest isn't even trying. Assuming they ever wake up and try to start competing, Comcast will already be running with DOCSIS 3.0 and Qwest will never catch up.
There's plenty of other places in their footprint where FTTH would work. Seattle, Phoenix, Minneapolis, maybe SLC. Running fiber in Grand Forks may not pay but running it in Redmond almost certainly would. |
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Verizon is the ILEC in parts of Washington and Oregon. That's nothing new. They don't run the service outside of their footprint. Sorry! |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to observer4
said by observer4:Slowly the Qwest geographic monopoly is being taken over. Good luck Verizon......Good night Mr. Ed. Verizon didn't take over any from Qwest. Verizon has been there since the 19th century. Those are just a couple of TINY ISLANDS of GTE ILEC service, remember Verizon took over GTE. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to lostinthewest
You have Utopia, be happy for that. |
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