| U-verse not VDSL2, just VDSL right now is my understanding -- although the word is that the installed hardware is VDSL2-capable with only software/firmware upgrades. |
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kudos:1 | said by MyDogHsFleas:is my understanding -- although the word is that the installed hardware is VDSL2-capable with only software/firmware upgrades. Yes, right now it is VDSL2+ but... the majority of uverse subscribers can't use band DS2 8.5MHz to 30MHz because of attenuation at higher frequencies.
See some VDSL results here »adslm.dohrenburg.org/tools/db-results.php
Actually the upgrade necessary is not firmware or software it is the transport medium. What AT&T needs is FIBER! |
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| said by etaadmin:...Actually the upgrade necessary is not firmware or software it is the transport medium. What AT&T needs is FIBER! Truer words never spoken! |
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| I wasn't going to respond to the last post because it was just so lame and I am tired of spending time educating people who don't want to be educated or who just won't listen to anything that doesn't follow the narrative as spun here.
But now you've got me.
Look -- VDSL or VDSL2 has nothing to do with fiber. You might as well append here "I like chocolate!" It'd be just as relevant.
Not only that, but AT&T does use fiber, to the node, and either reuses copper that already exists to the home, or installs new fiber to the home in new developments. As the need arises for REPLACING last-mile copper with fiber, they can do this for only an incremental cost -- the cost to do FTTN and the buildout of VDSL and Video over IP still applies.
Finally, for those who predict AT&T failing with their FTTN incremental-to-FTTP strategy because Verizon OBVIOUSLY made the right choice... well... events are not supporting you. AT&T has met all their business goals and are installing U-verse about as fast as they can. |
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