said by ITALIAN926: For the first time in history, a phone company has done something right and has future-proofed itself. All these companies milking copper will be kicking themselves one day.
I have to (mostly) disagree with your last sentence. Cable still has some kick left with a few tricks up it's sleeve that will allow it to hold off on a fiber rebuild for many more years. Of course Vz still will not have made it's money back on the fiber rollout by the time the bean counters at the cable companies decide the time is right for them. The reason I say "mostly" is that they could get the timing wrong and wait a little to late before their rollout and not be able to keep enough existing customers happy and go belly-up.
It's kind of odd to watch the tables turn. Vz got fat off the millions it made off the old copper infrastructure until voip made such a big dent in its wallet that Vz was
forced to make a change. Of course the fiber rollout would have never of happened if they hadn't been banking the money all them years.
Now the Cable companies are trying to bank some money for the big rollout they will be doing in the many years to come. Of course the fiber equipment will be much cheaper and better by that time.
Vz was hoping with the better service it could kill the competition and then make their own price structure, but the fight is greater then they thought. Kind of like Blu-Ray is the better product, but only a small percentage of us actually have it. More then likely, that small percentage are the people on this forum