dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
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Re: Meanwhile in the real world....
said by travelguy  :Qwest customers outside of their 4 or 5 major metro areas are limited to a max of 1.5mbps, if they can even get that. That is completely untrue. |
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travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
| I have no axe to grind with Qwest and recognize that of all the Baby Bells, Qwest has the worst economics in terms of population density to deal with. That statement might have been a slight exaggeration for effect.
That said, after the metro areas of Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, and a small part of Albuquerque, where can you get speeds above 1.5Mbps?
It's a tough economic environment and when you have Wall Street weenies like Craig Moffet insisting on harvesting revenue, it's hard to offer services that don't have an immediate payback. |
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JTY
join:2004-05-29
Ellensburg, WA | I have friends in Union Gap, WA which is a smallish town that have 7Mb/s service. |
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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
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said by travelguy :That said, after the metro areas of Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, and a small part of Albuquerque, where can you get speeds above 1.5Mbps? About every CO-based DSLAM offers the 7M speeds, as do the FTTN boxes which also offer the 12M/20M speeds.
There are multiple CO's with DSLAMs offering greater than 1.5M in Albuquerque alone, plus such MAJOR metropolitan areas such as Bayard, Taos, Clovis, etc, etc, etc.
Yeah, it sucks that you happen to be too far from the CO and can only get 1.5M. Now that Spring is here, I'd expect that FTTN installations will start ramping up again. |
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travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
1 edit | said by dynodb :Yeah, it sucks that you happen to be too far from the CO and can only get 1.5M. Now that Spring is here, I'd expect that FTTN installations will start ramping up again. I can see the lights of Albuquerque (to quote a famous song) from my place and would buy you serious amounts of your favorite adult beverage in celebration if that were to happen any time soon.
Given the number of Phds working at various government facilities who live in the neighborhood, I can't believe the takeup wouldn't more than meet the financial hurdles for such an investment. |
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dmwagner
Qwest DSL -alltel
join:2002-04-29
Canton, SD
 ·Qwest.net
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said by travelguy :That said, after the metro areas of Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, and a small part of Albuquerque, where can you get speeds above 1.5Mbps? Like everywhere almost. I am from South Dakota, tiny town... 8Mbps here and Qwest is one of 3 providers here, all with speeds from 8 to 10Mbps. |
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