The reason is that it costs money. Verizon and AT&T are billion dollar companies. It costs a lot of money to lay fibre whether it's in the ground or run from the telegraph pole. Sonic does not have to do this using copper. It's already there for them.
As Dane mentioned, Sonic aren't stupid but are playing a safe and long term game.
nobody said anything about fiBER we stated WiMAX and Moto Canopy products and getting away from copper. But Sonic doesn't get that. They spend all this money deploying their own NOC but YET still are relaying on a DEAD technology and on ATT.
When you spend that capital on a dead technology you lose now and especially later. You should spend that money on a technology that is NEW and WORKS withOUT the ILEC's 100+year old network.
Ok. So how much does it cost to employ WiMax and Canopy relative to ADSL?
What's with all the CAPITAL LETTERS? You seem a little angry/agitated about all this. You live in Toledo, OH so Sonic's business decisions don't affect you agree?
At the end of the day, Dane is the CEO and founder so it is up to him to decide how Sonic is run. Don't you agree?
No it doesn't bother me. It's not my money. He can be the CEO/Founder all he wants. It's the point he doesn't know how to spend money on what will work. Instead he's using an outdated technology that later ATT will run him into the ground.
reply to hottboiinnc You mentioned earlier in these posts about FTTH . How much does it cost to install WiMax relative to ADSL? The copper wire is installed whereas erecting base stations to serve multiplle locations are not.
Even ATT still uses primarily DSL with Uverse. Fibre to the VRAD and then DSL to the premises.
I for one will be ordering dual bonded ADSL2+ shortly and enjoy the 30/2 Mbit speeds from this slow and outdated technolgy.
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reply to hottboiinnc I don't believe wireless will serve fixed users well in the long run. There just isn't enough capacity.
An ADSL2+ deployment is a "DSLAM" in a CO - and today's DSLAMs are actually MSAs - multi-service-aggregators, so they will take a GPON card when it's time for FTTH.
Building a network of COs and MSAs is one step along a path.
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