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| You realize... At the current take rate and cost of building FIOS, Verizon won't see proffit from ANY FIOS subs for the next 20 years?
Unless, of course, they do what they are doing. Raising the rates of every service and every person NOT on FIOS. Yes, you there, with the Verizon cellphone, thank you for paying for FIOS upgrades everywhere! | | |
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join:2001-05-01
Schaumburg, IL
kudos:1 | How long did it take to see a profit when they first ran copper? I bet the time frame is similar.
Fiber is a greater medium. All they do is upgrade the equipment at each end and it gets faster. Copper has hit its end. A large part of the population still cannot get DSL as they are too far from the equipment.
Fios uses single mode fiber which supports 1000 Mbps (1Gb) synchronously with the right equipment. It wont be long until they have 10Gb running over it.
This means fiber is ready for duty for the next century. Copper has outlived its use. It was meant for landline phones which are going to be all but extinct in the next decade. | |
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