said by Gone:You're making a lot of assumptions without any factual basis for them. There is nothing so special about Windsor that would make it be more complicated or more expensive to do than St. Catharines, Kitchener or - most particularly - Hamilton, all of which have Fibe TV now.
And you have a written proven actually official bell statement that EVERY person in these communities have the bandwidth for it?
I know for a fact there is no FTTN down here whatsoever from Bell and we are still on the same 20 year old tech we were from the 90s and 80's (we are the only major urban centre in Bell's footprint that doesn't have something). For them to suddenly change their heart and come down to "completely" redo the whole city is unrealistic given the past history.
Like I said people barely get anything from bell now here. I have about 20 or so people I know who got rid of it because they couldn't get anything above 3/0.8 or due to usual Bellotics.
Let alone 25/10 or more needed to push both TV and
good internet (like 30/5 min for both services -- much like my previous employer).
Unless you have official bell plans for Windsor (and not a backed statement about them divesting in a single satellite)--and not a general "we are going to blanket "millions of square KM" announcement I believe you are making a pretty big assumption.
Knowing standard FTTN games all that announcement could mean is that Bell is planning on abandoning legacy DSL and satellite much like ATT/Verizon is in the US and finishing its deployment in already FTTN served areas (filling in the gaps).
Bell basically abandoned Windsor years ago due to the distance we are from the rest of the country (to focus on the rest of Canada) I don't buy their announcements much like I don't get into 'Windsor vs Rest of Canada' politics when it comes to these things. FTTN stopped in London For a reason and its political. Most poeple don't even realize Bell Satellite is even available here as of now.
If we get it we will be the last in line, after other places have been filled in.
JCohen:
They have been for most of the new subdivisions since the mid 90s down here (its all underground and most of it is UN-serviceable for DSL) but most of the older neighbourhoods here (80%) are CO fed. for example in Downtown Windsor ADSL is all but non existent (like most cities) due to paper insulated POTS plant.
The servers and broadcast equipment for IPTV is still placed in the central offices (BDOs) and distributed via Fibre to the remotes. That was already posted in other threads. They would have to place that equipment in 5 (maybe 6) central offices before stringing fibre to remotes for 100% coverage.
I've yet to hear or see anything to suggest such things are being or have been installed.