Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| cable has no balls The cable companies do not want to compete with a dedicated bandwidth last mile network such as FTTP. This undermines their cable-tv business and phone business (phone, to a lesser extent). A 250Gb soft cap is primary proof that the biggest footprint cable company Comcast will not go toe to toe with Verizon's FTTP broadband network. Whatever they do now, they continue to prove that they are an inferior provider of broadband in a feeble attempt to protect a video(aka Cable-TV) revenue stream that's going to see a decline on the order of that seen by Plain Old Telephone Service providers. Due to this lack of competition in duopoly footprint, it begins to make broadband MORE expensive thus, in a way protecting for a little while longer, the cable revenue stream.
As cable companies see a mass exodus of customers, you will see more cable companies offering "ON DEMAND" channels streamed by packets. Cable companies will have no choice but to offer MORE for LESS again. Docsis 3 in and of itself IS NOT an evolution of a business model. The way the cable companies have deployed the service it's more like a circling of the wagons than competition. What is the result.. a clammoring for a 3rd party provider. |
