Did you forget that the carriers in those areas aren't isolated to those areas. If VZ ONLY had to wire NYC, they could deploy any speed you wanted...but they have to be concerned with millions upon millions of other users and dedicate resources to serving them. -- "Our goal (was to make) a billion phones Flash-enabled by 2010...We're actually going to get 1 billion Flash-enabled phones by 2009." -Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch in Nov 2008.
So how does wiring NYC for speeds comparable to SK and other have anything to do with speeds in Podunk, Kansas? There's nothing that says they have to offer the same speeds in every location. Hell, they're doing that now.
Big difference because they're still national plans.
Verizon FiOS is not a national or even Verizon wide plan. AT&T U-Verse is not a national or even an AT&T wide plan. Don't even think about cable companies having the same speeds and prices everywhere. Lack of effective competition is the reason why U. S. broadband isn't better.
Of course it is. FiOS plans are nearly standard in every FiOS market and the same with U-Verse.
False on its face. FiOS plans follow a close pattern to competition. There's about two to three templates Verizon follows, but which template they choose from for each area has a lot to do with competition, and the templates are far different from each other.
Who cares what AT&T does with U-Verse -- that whole product line is a low class tier anyway. It doesn't really count. It's slower than anything else.
False on it's face. FiOS tiers are nearly universal across all FiOS markets. They are 15-25-35-50 just about everywhere if not everywhere FiOS is available.
And 18-24Mb U-Verse is slow compared to what exactly? They are also getting ready to deploy bonded service.
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