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tshirt
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AT&T (then SBC) promised to deploy broadband ...

AT&T (then SBC) promised to deploy broadband to every home in their 22-state footprint in exchange for regulators locking the FiOS and U-Verse networks off from open access policies and competition...
I don't believe FiOS was a SBC or AT&T product, I'm sure either would have loved to see Verizon being forced to line share.
I can understand if you meant just U-verse. Or if you said FTTx.
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Other articles on this show they promised FTTH so he probably meant that.

Of course they failed to do any of that as well and are still relying on their crap copper throughout a vast majority of their foot print.

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said by Skippy25:

FTTH so he probably meant that

Probably but to avoid any (more) confusion over who did what, I though Karl could clarify.

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Sentence is clunky I guess. I meant to say Powell's 2004 move allowed AT&T and Verizon to avoid having to provide open access to the U-Verse and FiOS networks.
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The post also states "broadband" it does not state wired or by a dish. So technically what AT&T has promised, has been done. And AT&T also sells U-Verse at 300megs- so yes that is met as well.

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said by tshirt:

I don't believe FiOS was a SBC or AT&T product

SBC was calling it project Lightspeed.

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said by CaptainRR:

said by tshirt:

I don't believe FiOS was a SBC or AT&T product

SBC was calling it project Lightspeed.

The "it" in your sentence is grammatically referring to the "FiOS®" of the previous post. SBC couldn't call "it" anything; it wasn't theirs to name.

Of course, Project Lightspeed was SBC's precursor to "U-verse®".

But please: FTTH is generic. "FiOS®" and "U-verse®" are corporate brands.
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No it hasn't. If you read you will see in their own words they say wired and 200kbps. Neither have been done.

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Infact U-verse was going to be all fiber before shareholders got to it!
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And if you read what was posted here- it says "broadband".
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Sometimes you have to do a little work yourself and not rely on someone to hand feed you the information so if you read on your own beyond this you will see the definition of that is 200kbps and they still fail.
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I know they claim to offer speeds faster than 32mbps, but do they actually deliver it anywhere?

Remember this is the same company that offered the exact same top speed over fiber as they did with copper to retain a "universal service" across all markets. Talk about morons.

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Infact U-verse was going to be all fiber before shareholders got to it!

So what you are saying AT&T is not to blame it is the shareholders? For some reason, that seems to be a lame excuse. I say that AT&T wants to have control over everything. Since they cannot be MaBell they tried to be MaCell, but that kinda failed too. They are doing this so that they get what they really want... Their monopoly back.

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It's mostly shareholders that's also why Fios is longer being deployed.