xsiddalx
join:2005-03-11
Chicago, IL
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| reply to cferra
Re: Been the case.
It's as simple as that!
The entire telecommunications market is so controlled by the government. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't (we all have the CATV called internet, it's high speed but we no longer have competition like we did in the dial up days).
We vote with our wallets and the regulators generally respond to the least common element.
Their copper is nearly depreciated anyway, Verizon is price cap regulated (no regulatory incentive to invest), and the jury is still out on the provider getting all their cash from the customer directly or via a combo of customer / wholesale provider. In any case, they are acknowledging high bandwidth connections to the home are the new POTS lines. Not really too complicated. It's the business model that needs to work itself out that is complicated.
said by cferra  :This has been the case since the roll out of FiOS. I got my first install of FiOS, I moved since then in Valley Stream, I want to say like 2 and a half years ago. I was told by the technician THEN that they were abandoning their copper network and band-aiding it. Verizon no longer has a vested interested in a network that they are required to share, with FiOS, they are not required to share the lines that they put up, so they are pushing that HARD. Chris |
