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Re: Qwest Is So STUPID said by WiseOldNerd:They waste money on pointless law suits, refuse to upgrade their infrastructure and reduce level of service. They have become gigantic losers. But 2 of your points are invalid in this context. FTTN is an upgrade to infrastructure, which is required to INCREASE the level of service (12 and 20 Meg DSL is about the fastest DSL you can get, anywhere). Just because they aren't aggressively doing FTTH doesn't invalidate the progress Qwest is making. |
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Hingham, MA | Honestly, years of mismanagement at Q has left a massive Verizon-esque fiber deployment essentially impossible... FTTN is pretty good, and they are offering higher speeds than say, at&t (to compare to other telcos)... |
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What's your rationalization for the measly upstream speed? Surely you aren't touting this as an "upgrade" or "progress".
Why do I as a consumer want to pay more for "the fastsest DSL anywhere" when i can get a far superior connection for less money?
Why do they spend millions of dollars trying to stop fiber development instead of deploying fiber themselves?
Why do they not become a provider on the utopia network INSTEAD of spending millions to deploy a technology that's already surpassed? They already resell over direct tv and verizon wireless. why not utopia? |
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said by viperlmw:said by WiseOldNerd:They waste money on pointless law suits, refuse to upgrade their infrastructure and reduce level of service. They have become gigantic losers. But 2 of your points are invalid in this context. FTTN is an upgrade to infrastructure, which is required to INCREASE the level of service (12 and 20 Meg DSL is about the fastest DSL you can get, anywhere). Just because they aren't aggressively doing FTTH doesn't invalidate the progress Qwest is making. When you hold it up to the progress their competition (where they have any) has made, it is not only invalidated, it's made to look foolish. Part of Quests failing (2 years? 5 years from now? What kind of federal bailout does a failed RBOC get?) has been their inability to separate their rural customer base from their metropolitan. There's no way in hell you're going to make money running FTTFarm, but treating your metro (yes, Provo is metro, it's more or less a suburb of SLC) customers like their out in the sticks is a sure fire way to lose them. It wouldn't cost any more for Qwest to run competing fiber than it cost Verizon, yet they will not do it. With the money they've saved by turning down the brightness of the Blue Light, they should be able to compete in the market rather than the courtroom.
Here's an idea:
City population below 50k, VDSL
City Population above 50k, FTTH
They have no cell revenue, landline customers are dieing of old age, AND they won't compete in the broadband arena. If you own it, sell it while you still can.
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