GVG
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Charlotte, NC | reply to FHBroadband8
Re: Road Runner - Docsis 3 news? Heard today from a very reliable inside source, no DOCSIS 3 for the Charlotte area anytime soon. Budget problems. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by GVG:Heard today from a very reliable inside source, no DOCSIS 3 for the Charlotte area anytime soon. Budget problems. The Charlotte area has some major issues, at least where my CEO is. We had to have a DSL line installed as his Biz Class line is too unreliable and suffering too much packet loss to support a measly VoIP connection. After fussing and getting them to admit it's a problem at the headend that is going to take months to fix, we couldn't wait any longer. |
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That is unfortunate. Not sure how the Charlotte area is but for NYC it is definitely a go.
Competition is intense here. Budget problems are just an excuse. |
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NYC will be the only DOCSIS 3.0 launch in the country this year. Which is lame, by any standard, but the suits at TWC argue the speeds aren't necessary. In reality, they face crap last-gen DSL competition in the majority of their markets -- so it's not that consumers don't want the speed -- it's that they really don't need to deploy it until 2010 or 2011 -- if even then.
A source at Cisco says DOCSIS 3.0 gear has been in NYC for months for testing...since before Sprint even. Another new source at Time Warner Cable who reached out this week insists the NYC launch will be in weeks, not months. No confirmation of this last bit though... |
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