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Re: I'm not surprised.. said by insomniac84:Some one at AT&T probably said if we moved to fiber optic now, we will pay more now and won't get the returns for years. So they decided to upgrade to adsl2 which can barely offer internet and tv and use that first. Then they will move to fiber. At which time the costs will be cheaper. But odds are it will cost them more in the long run since they had to invest in two technologies and not just one. And in the interim, they are going to lose customers in any market with competition. Since cable companies can offer faster speeds and customers don't have to put up with line issues and distance limits which can make dsl crappy. Of course, but they were expecting to see huge drops in price by letting others move to fiber then they would switch down the road. Well the price is dropping but not as fast as they expected (because they didn't jump in too). So now they are supporting old DSL in most markets, VDSL in some new markets, fiber in select new housing builds, and I think some of their customers are asking for more speed than the 6mb/s they have offered for years. Unfortunately the only thing they can do with VDSL is bonded pair which is still in the lab! Not to mention it would pretty much mean running 2 lines to most customers meaning twice the copper, and probably even thicker lines on the polls.
To me, it seems that not switching to fiber was a big mistake in the long run (and possibly in the short run).
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