Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| Who's the dinosaur now? "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".
In most cases a deployed network, be it copper rust cables or coax strands across the sludge that is our national telecommunicaitons footprint never dies truly.. it's bought out by another company for pennies on the dollar. RCN was talking crap about the then Bell Atlantic and later Verizon being dinosaurs and on their way out because broadband was going to lead the way with micro niche markets mushrooming into huge 3rd wire footprints that would kill off well established cable and telco companies... think again.. the big got bigger and RCN got a dagger in their backs and relegated to a few cherry picked locations that were still being toyed with by the big telecoms and cablecos about franchise fees. Broadband is a big player and driver of demand for service.. that was proven true, however RCN will never be a big player in the marketplace because too much money is at stake with incumbent carriers. Hundreds of millions of subscriptions which on average cost north for $50 each service shows you that the revenue at risk is into the billions of dollars country-wide.
What are we left with?
Here they are in no order of importance:
AT&T
Verizon
Comcast
Cablevision
Cox
Time Warner
Qwest
The biggest overlaps are AT&T-Comcast / Verizon and Cablevision.
What of those black holes left behind? Nothing, your basically S C R E W E D. Even local municipalities are seeing how much money it would take to build out a fiber or coax network and shudder to think what could happen to their local politics if some politicos were to push through something and lose a ton of money on it... and the more the big incumbents can make it look like a huge risk so they won't try it the safer they feel in their lobbying efforts to spend millions to prevent others from entering the market to take away some of the billions in revenue each year just for telecom services. That's right the telecoms and cable companies spend MILLIONS lobbying congress, local state & county politicians to pass laws and obstacles of all kinds to protect BILLIONS in revenue. |
