BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| This makes no sense yet again As usual, DSLReports is reporting that somehow AT&T is just going to stop offering DSL service. That's ridiculous. They want out of regulation, which is bad, but DSLReports shouldn't be spreading this FUD about ending DSL service. What company in their right mind would get rid of existing infrastructure that's already paid for? Once it's there, it's a cash cow. The flip side is that they aren't upgrading to fiber, but rather leaving 6mbps DSL as the fasest thing they can handle and not upgrading the systems. |
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL | Then why'd Verizon sell off their lines a few years ago in all of those states? |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
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said by BiggA:What company in their right mind would get rid of existing infrastructure that's already paid for? That's *exactly* what AT&T is doing.
And they just don't abandon it if they can find somebody else to sell it too. (Windstream.) If not, they just let it die.
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH Reviews:
·Comcast
| reply to Zoder
They didn't get rid of the lines. In fact, those systems now have MORE DSL, as they are owned by a company that is focused on rural DSL. Like in New Hampshire where they installed a bunch of ADSL2+ RDSLAMs.
They're not going to just get rid of something that's already built, and rather profitable. That just doesn't make any sense. If anything, the article is about hanging up on the extremely far out landlines, which are so far out that they don't have DSL anyways, and probably are basically unused. |
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