 maartenaElmoPremium
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Re: Grrr... said by swintec:So is it safe to assume that since TW New Englands biggest competitor is bankrupt fairpoint, we wont see this until...never?  There is plenty of competition in SoCal of both FIOS, U-Verse, and 3d-party DSL vendors..... but the network in SoCal has been mismanaged for years now. We're behind on HD channels, we're behind on Docsis 3.0, we're way behind in customer service people actually having a clue.
And yeah.... since big urban areas with plenty of competition aren't seeing anything soon, you can bet that areas where the major alternative is a 3 Mbps DSL line.... is indeed never going to see it.
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 swintecPremium,VIP
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| I was hoping that since we were there test market over the years for several key technologies (Digital phone, SDV, etc) they would want to use us again for DOCSIS 3...but I suppose they had other plans.
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maartenaElmoPremium
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| Digital Phone and SDV they have to roll out system-wide anyways, because there are so many alternatives for your phone (including mobile and replacing landlines alltogether), and watching television (including 2 major nationwide satellite providers).
Not so with Internet, it needs to be delivered to your house accross a cable (although some areas are experimenting with cheaper WiMax solutions, its not all that much faster then a decent DSL line), and thus the competition is a lot less.
TWC is doing a "surgical rollout", which basically means that you are out of luck of your competition is 3 Mbps / 786 Kbps DSL. (Or worse, 1.5/384)
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