said by espaeth:said by 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.
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?