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AT&T forgoes VDSL/FTTN for some developments, where they run fiber to the home -- but they cap the bandwidth delivered back to the same speed of regular VDSL U-Verse (up to 18Mbps).
That would seemingly give Verizon, whose top speed is 50Mbps, the advantage in any head to head battle. I am glad that said seemingly. Because depending on price many people would choose the cheaper service seeing that MOST people would find 18 mbps plenty enough speed and wouldn't pop for Verizon(at a much higher price) over AT&T FTTH.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:I am glad that said seemingly. Because depending on price many people would choose the cheaper service seeing that MOST people would find 18 mbps plenty enough speed and wouldn't pop for Verizon(at a much higher price) over AT&T FTTH. Stream a few HD channels and your usable bandwidth suddenly isn't 18mbps but a fraction of that. It's still more then what many people have, but it's still limited. |
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| said by cdru:said by fAcEtIOUs:I am glad that said seemingly. Because depending on price many people would choose the cheaper service seeing that MOST people would find 18 mbps plenty enough speed and wouldn't pop for Verizon(at a much higher price) over AT&T FTTH. Stream a few HD channels and your usable bandwidth suddenly isn't 18mbps but a fraction of that. It's still more then what many people have, but it's still limited. That is true where UVerse is using copper. But it wouldn't apply to those AT&T greenfield sites using FTTH as discussed in this news story.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:That is true where UVerse is using copper. But it wouldn't apply to those AT&T greenfield sites using FTTH as discussed in this news story. From the article and also quoted in your original message: quote:
AT&T forgoes VDSL/FTTN for some developments, where they run fiber to the home -- but they cap the bandwidth delivered back to the same speed of regular VDSL U-Verse (up to 18Mbps).
Emphasis added.
It's not real clear if they are only capping the internet data and allowing faster rates for IPTV, or if all data, regardless of purpose, is capped at 18mbits. If it's the former, you are right. If it's the latter, what I said still would apply until they remove that artificial restriction. |
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said by fAcEtIOUs:I am glad that said seemingly. Because depending on price many people would choose the cheaper service seeing that MOST people would find 18 mbps plenty enough speed and wouldn't pop for Verizon(at a much higher price) over AT&T FTTH. AT&T is still toying with absurdly low caps, even on Uverse, and equally absurd overage charges. People start getting hit with overage fees and I wonder how different the price will be?
Verizon has more going for it than speed since they are not, at least YET, talking about caps. |
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