All greenfield's should be FTTH in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20686936 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:03:15 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:03:15 EDT Re: All greenfield's should be FTTH http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20689462 hottboiinnc : Verizon is doing an actual "new" build. They're replacing a system with a new one but only when the customer changes over to the new system. They're not having two differenet set-top boxes as far as programming. Also VZW had to put in a new call center to handle FiOS many cable companies do not want to pay for that extra item right now let alone to rebuild an entire network that they just got done doing maybe 7 years ago. VZ had no option but to upgrade to Fiber since they are still using a system that is from the 80s and before.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20689462 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:20:57 EDT Re: All greenfield's should be FTTH http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20689150 Matt :
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All greenfield deployments should be FTTH. Any company not running FTTH is shooting themselves in the foot and has absolutely no excuse for it.
There's plenty of excuses not to do it. Spare parts, tech training, call center support documentation, new field toolkits, new video distribution mechanisms, different customer set top boxes, etc.

No doubt they need to move in that direction (and I'm not arguing that they shouldn't), but it's not as easy as sitting down and saying "we should roll fiber now".
Really? My ILEC did it ... Verizon did it ... why can't the big boys?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20689150 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:52:16 EDT Re: All greenfield's should be FTTH http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20687480 espaeth :
said by Matt See Profile :

All greenfield deployments should be FTTH. Any company not running FTTH is shooting themselves in the foot and has absolutely no excuse for it.
There's plenty of excuses not to do it. Spare parts, tech training, call center support documentation, new field toolkits, new video distribution mechanisms, different customer set top boxes, etc.

No doubt they need to move in that direction (and I'm not arguing that they shouldn't), but it's not as easy as sitting down and saying "we should roll fiber now".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20687480 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:09:00 EDT All greenfield's should be FTTH http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686936 Matt : All greenfield deployments should be FTTH. Any company not running FTTH is shooting themselves in the foot and has absolutely no excuse for it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686936 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:35:00 EDT