T1 Rocky
join:2002-11-15
Dallas, TX
 ·Time Warner Cable
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Re: The power utilities need to get real.
What a freekin bummer?!!?!?! I don't understand any of this. In the rich neighborhoods of Dallas, they already have the fiber to up and down all of the streets. And now Oncor buys this network to "monitor the power grid?" So they are saying that they're going to take milions of dollars of already laid fiber and use it to ping homes to see if they have power?!?!!?
The only thing left to do is pull the the fiber from the street into the house!!! Hell, you can charge the customer for that in the installation!
This just desn't make any sense. Why would Oncor buy it and not AT&T or Verizon and run FIOS or UVerse over it? Something is fishy here.
I'm so sad to hear this. That fiber network was the only chance that I see in the future for competition. The telcos will eventually put the cable companies out of business over the next 10 years. Maybe wireless is the future. |
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n1zuk
How About Them Raiders
Premium
join:2001-10-24
South Burlington, VT
 ·Future Nine Corpor..
·ViaTalk
·Comcast
| reply to mb
Yes, as long as you ignore the following opinion:
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The new owner, Oncor, confirms they have no interest in using the network for broadband. "Our business is delivering electricity, not being an Internet provider or a television provider," an Oncor spokesman tells the AP.
Even when you remove the cost of leasing access, the cost of installing and maintaining the 'physical plant' in sparse areas just isn't profitable. If it was, the cable companies would already be there.
But with so few people benefiting from BPL, it really makes no sense what the FCC has been doing these past few years, ignoring and compromising their own rules... 
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mb
join:2000-07-23
Washington, NJ
·Comcast
·Callcentric
·Vonage
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Mr Matt
said by Mr Matt  :  The power utilities need to get real and stop with the no new wire concept. They already have the right of ways. All they need to do is install fiber along those right of ways. The power utilities can then provide transport for new services. The only issue could be resistance from the Telephone and Cable service providers. This is the most sensible thing I've ever read about power companys delivering internet service.
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
·Comcast
·Embarq
|  The power utilities need to get real and stop with the no new wire concept. They already have the right of ways. All they need to do is install fiber along those right of ways. The power utilities can then provide transport for new services. The only issue could be resistance from the Telephone and Cable service providers. |
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