 ajc18aka IGnatius T Foobar
join:2000-05-06
Mount Kisco, NY | FTTH is the future, and a good investment. AT&T and Qwest are going to have to upgrade to FTTH eventually. There's only so much bandwidth that you can squeeze out of an old copper pair, even at short distances. U-Verse is already obsolete. They're very close to maxing out the capacity of VDSL. The reason? AT&T saw U-Verse as a telephone-and-Internet play. They saw it as "we're going to offer the fastest DSL in the industry." They weren't forward-thinking enough to anticipate that digital television was going to be part of the picture.
Verizon was forward-thinking enough to realize that if they replaced their aging copperplant with fiber, they could offer digital television service along with voice and data, and still have bandwidth to spare. FiOS is a long term investment. They got a hundred years out of the copper plant. They're not going to replace it with something that will be obsolete in less than a decade.
Cable ate telco's lunch by offering fast Internet and cheap voice. Now it's telco's turn to eat cable's lunch by offering a better television service. Verizon is well positioned to do this. AT&T isn't. It's a good investment.
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Art Cancro
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| AT&T is cutting corners by deploying FTTH in new neighborhoods and developments, while continuing to use copper in existing neighborhoods. Kinda like how VZ is cherry picking. Both want deployment costs to go down so they can put FTTH in more areas. |
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