said by SteveCon:said by Kickroot:More upgrades to existing FiOS customers, when I still can't get it where I live!
Nah - reread the part:
"All new builds in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Texas this year will be GPON."
It's for *NEW* builds. My older BPON technology Fios is staying that way.
Actually, it's just waiting to be upgraded after the greenfield GPON-only builds. GPON is backward-compatible with BPON (so if you have mismatched equipment (BPON at one end and GPON at the other) you'll only see BPON speeds). If you have a CO with only GPON switchgear, but mixed NIDs, they will only need to swap out the BPON NIDs. That could very well be an issue in parts of MD/DE/NJ/NYS (such as the *infamous rural outliers*).
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