iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| My Take Comcast will roll out the Xfinity brand anywhere they have fiber competition. That competition can come from FIOS or some home-grown fiber optic provider (or a regional one like TDS or CinBell if Comcast serves such areas now). U-Verse areas will be put lower on the list though Xfinity might go there to be "not so sucky TV" to compete with AT&T's excellent TelcoTV UI (yay M$). *Hopefully* the Denver metro will also get Xfinity due to Qwest's (very limited) VDSL2 deloyments in the area, but I'm not counting on it.
I'm guessing that the 100M internet tier is indeed real and will have 15 Mbps up, and will be priced where 50/10 is right now for residential users to stave off conversions to competitors. Eventually that tier will get rolled out cross-footprint but it will be used surgically for awhile against FTTH. Sucks for me, but whatever. Heck, 50/10 might go on promo in XFinity areas for $50 per month like I hear it does in certain cases. Pretty cool, though I can't seem to get that deal here.
As for CDV, CDV + HomePoint = XFinity Digital Voice. Throw in a DOCSIS 3.0 eMTA with the HomePoint functionality built in and that's that side of the equation.
For TV, let there be a better box. Oh please let there be a better box. Becuase, from what I hear, cable boxes are crappy. Fingers crossed for TV viewers out there.
One thing that's for certain: Comcast will try to push out lots of HD channels as part of XFinity. I'd expect Xfinity markets to go all-digital except for broadcast basic in order to free the bandwidth needed to push 00+ HD channels over the waveguide.
We'll see what happens. Hopefully the rumors about internet speed increases are true and 16/2 becomes 20/4, with a 100/15 tier being added on the top end (or morphed from 50/10) for whoever wants it. Which would consist of lots of small and medium businesses, plus super power users on the residential side and a college frat house or two, though those on my campus wold be reticent to part with their 50M+ symmetric connection via the campus network, which is now connected via a gigabit to the Interwebz. |
