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join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to alchav
Re: Now Who's Laughing? I don't think Fiber is over-kill at all.. what I'm saying is that for the over all picture and what the market and economy can take right now, I think that at&t is actually making good economic sense.
I don't believe that every company has to be everything for everyone.. they have to find a marketplace. Currently, I think that U-Verse has it's market as does cable, satellite, etc.
They could dump a butt-load of money into fiber which WOULD get them along through the future, however, right now... ask yourself.. "what IS the future...?" Right now, in my estimation, I don't see much of a "future" over the next 10 years. I think the fat-cat society that we've lived in for the past 20 years is coming to a MAJOR slow down for some time to come.. and the current political administration is possibly going to make my 10 years look more like 15 or 20. |
 alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA | You might be right, in your estimation of "The Future." Ten years is a long time, especially in Technology, and 2 or 3 years ago AT&T U-Verse was looking pretty good, but now with High Speed Data, Phone, and HDTV do you really think all this can be squeezed into your home on a pair of Copper Wires? AT&T is already talking about Bonding, and this has to be done over good Copper. So now you are talking about replacing all the existing Copper. Does this make good economic sense?
You talk about the Big Picture and what is The Future, and even though we are going to be moving slow, we don't have enough capacity now in most homes for what people want. Steaming High Definition Video from Servers is already here, and what is needed for this? Right.....Fiber! |
