 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Re: Canada, Russia, Indonesia said by espaeth:said by funchords:Four years, four different addresses, I've never lived in the "sticks" and I've never had fiber optic available to me at any one of them. That's because fiber by itself doesn't sell. Verizon spent billions rolling out FiOS to the markets in which they've currently deployed, and despite having a clearly superior technology they're not hitting higher than a 20% adoption rate. General Motors aside, most companies don't pump a lot of investment into developing products that people don't buy. Verizon doesn't have to put ANY content on it. Let everyone put content on it. Put Time Warner Cable through it. Put Netflix through it. The toll-road operator doesn't get rich making the road smooth for Fords.
Verizon could be the must-have technology that disrupts vertically-aligned media monopolies by cutting themselves in to ALL media, and it's as safe as featherbed because we've seen that overbuilders just don't come around very often.
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