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woodward
XMission Broadband
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join:2000-12-28
Salt Lake City, UT
| reply to freemyinternet
Re: Light speed in Utah now????
said by freemyinternet :
Perhaps you are just mad since they won't let you resell it? No.
Locally, there is a lot of direct competition between Qwest and the UTOPIA FTTN municipal network, which is a vastly superior service that brings fiber right into your home.
Elsewhere in the country, Verizon is garnering mass praise for FiOS.
In contrast, Qwest is making the most minimal investment to offer the slightest upgrade, and investing heavily in litigation to obstruct superior municipal infrastructure.
And this new marketing effort Qwest pretends "We do fiber too" when, in fact, they do not. It is one of the most intellectually dishonest campaigns I have ever seen. | |
viperlmw
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join:2005-01-25
 ·Qwest.net
| said by woodward  :said by freemyinternet :
Perhaps you are just mad since they won't let you resell it? No. Locally, there is a lot of direct competition between Qwest and the UTOPIA FTTN municipal network, which is a vastly superior service that brings fiber right into your home. Elsewhere in the country, Verizon is garnering mass praise for FiOS. In contrast, Qwest is making the most minimal investment to offer the slightest upgrade, and investing heavily in litigation to obstruct superior municipal infrastructure. And this new marketing effort Qwest pretends "We do fiber too" when, in fact, they do not. It is one of the most intellectually dishonest campaigns I have ever seen. A few points...
There is direct competition which, I understand, Utopia is loosing to Qwest and Comcast. One person's 'vastly superior service' is another persons boondogle. Between overage caps and promotional pricing, Utopia is not, in some ways, superior (not everyone cares about 40ms for gaming, tho I do).
As for the FTTN upgrade path, has noone here figured out that Qwest, being the smallest baby bell, is going to be the last one out with new residential product? Much of this has to do with pricing. Qwest finally started rolling out DSL on a massive basis when the price per port really dropped about 8-10 years ago. The price point for the FTTN gear Qwest is using dropped pretty significantly over the last couple of years. This same equipment can be used for a FTTH build out when those prices drop. And with the way copper prices are heading, you might see more last mile fiber based on pricing.
And when you beat up Qwest over it's marketing of 'fiber optic technology', why not Comcast? Hell, they pull that number in Spokane, too. And while you may call it deceptive, it's not inaccurate. | |
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