OwlSaverOwlSaverPremium
join:2005-01-30
Berwyn, PA Reviews:
 ·Verizon FiOS
| I wonder if.. I wonder if:
They would enter competing telecom areas - see AT&T vs. Verizon.
They would widely deploy FemtoCells to FiOS customers to cut down on their need for Cell Towers.
Make some COs FiOS only for the local loop.
FiOS was a big bet for Verizon that seems to be paying off. It is probably having benefits for the country as a whole too. this should be a textbook case in MBA Schools. |
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| I hope that Verizon expands into AT&T's market. I think I would celebrate that day. |
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do you mean a something like a town being served by 2 telcom companies simultaneously? if so, i don't think that could happen easily. |
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 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to karpodiem
I think you will see AT&T start moving from FTTN style topology to FTTC or FTTH. ADSL2 just isn't getting the job done. |
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| It's a good thing AT&T skipped over ADSL2 and went to higher speed VDSL and VDSL2. Not to mention they have FTTH in some greenbuilds and FTTC in many of their SE markets. It's just a matter of beefing it up. |
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DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | Brain fart...I meant VDSL. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to bogey780
I was under the impression that the BellSouth FTTC plant was essentially a dead-end system that wasn't capable of anything faster than 1.5mbps thanks to its technology never being updated, and that in some places it was being torn out for U-Verse FTTN. |
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| IFITL was a dead-end. There was 2 generations of systems past it with the latest supporting VDSL2 at full bitrate. Though since it may not work with Uverse, it's gotta go. |
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1 edit | reply to OwlSaver
said by OwlSaver:I wonder if: They would enter competing telecom areas - see AT&T vs. Verizon. They would widely deploy FemtoCells to FiOS customers to cut down on their need for Cell Towers. Make some COs FiOS only for the local loop. FiOS was a big bet for Verizon that seems to be paying off. It is probably having benefits for the country as a whole too. this should be a textbook case in MBA Schools. Verizon IS already moving into ATT territory. I have lived in my house for 2 years in solid ATT territory (Former Southwestern Bell/SBC) and NEVER had any Verizon service to choose from at all. Not only that, but ATT has been pitching U-Verse in my neighborhood for almost a year now. Just two weeks ago there was a hanger on the door with Verizon letterhead and letterhead of the contractor saying they were going to being laying fiber in my neighborhood and expanding my choices for TV, phone, etc, blah, blah, blah. So, folks it IS happening and quick. They just put orange flexible conduit in holes in the ground every third house on my street this week and right now as I write this there are three contractors trucks and lanes blocked on the 4 lane street off of mine, although I'm not sure what they are doing now. |
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