| reply to Muncher
Re: [BC] Why does Telus throttle upload so much? Actually, according to landmass, Canada is still second to Russia.
»www.cia.gov/library/publications···de=na#CA
Nice try though.
Also, the whole 150km from the border thing is bullshit. The biggest costs in running optical cable will be the last mile. High density generally alleviates this because the costs can be recouped quickly.
If TELUS were to blanket Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria they could recoup their costs rather quickly. The fact they could completely destroy Shaw's speed dominance would be a nice win for TELUS.
I think TELUS should create a company whose sole purpose is to expand fiber everywhere. Then lease it from their own company. This mainly serves to circumvent the mandatory sharing of lines. This company can lease lines and charge for each install to TELUS and have a contract stipulating that TELUS is their sole customer.
Frankly, I think if TELUS were to spend the money on the line and another company were to start servicing the end user, that new company should have the onus to pay the remainder of the installation costs off.
For example: if a GPON connection costs a grand to my apartment and I have TELUS for 2 years but want to switch, in that two years TELUS may have set aside 20/month towards the installation costs. Now we're at $480 of that 1000 being paid off. But if I go to Teksavvy GPON, now TS should have to pay the rest of the $520 off.
GPON is pretty much necessary for TELUS to compete in the long run. Twisted pair only has so much steam left in it. VDSL2 can hit about 100Mbps real world with providers offering about 10Mbps up in Germany.
TELUS is getting into triple play phone/internet/tv in a big way and TV is a hard sell to people with more than one HDTV. Also you can't PVR shows and watch another one simultaneously (I think, this may have changed). Essentially, TELUS has to start offering FiOS. |
