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Re: Sounds like vaporware I believe that this is not vaporware. It's not like AT&T to publicly declare they are doing something that's not real. Now it may be very late, it may not have all the features and speeds, but it will be visible.
I'll also point out that this is exactly what I've been predicting will happen, in many forum posts here. AT&T has significant headroom to increase their speeds over copper, on a per-user basis, for those with closer and/or better and/or multi-pair connections to the VRAD.
We have already seen the first big step with the introduction of 18mb and then 24mb download service, plus the move to a conservative implementation of VDSL2 (with no hardware upgrades).
Now it seems that they will offer new levels to customers and open up their provisioning (which has been fairly rigid) to take advantage of local conditions, much like they did with DSL in the past. In fact I expect this to be done concurrently with a move to essentially replace DSL with U-verse, both from a technology and from an offering/provisioning/billing point of view.
They also have a lot of headroom (obviously) in their FTTP footprint which is quietly growing on a daily basis, although I still think many here are ignorant of its presence. Longer term, they can start overbuilding FTTP on top of FTTN, in selected areas, at their own pace.
The old horse ain't quite dead yet. |
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| Again, it's entirely possible. The question is: how many AT&T customers is it possible for?
Also...I know AT&T believes they can milk copper for another four years and gradually move to fiber, but every indication from quarterly earnings is that Comcast is eating their lunch right now.
It's a fine balance between future proofing and suckling the teat of myopic investors. |
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·Comcast
| Suppose it's possible for 1/2? and due to the low cost, if the take rate/return is reasonable they (if allowed) double the number of "lawn monoliths" in areas that need shorter runs/more coverage.
they could end covering a large percentage of their footprint but still be well below the crippling debt/ massive obligations thats forcing verizon to withdraw from much of their territory.
Perhaps slow and steady will prove to be a better stratagy after all. |
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