Vespid
join:2002-09-24
Sharon, MA | Verizon DSL actual deployment numbers as of Q4 2002 for PA:
Total COs deployed: 240 out of 500 total (48%)
Total Hhlds served by DSL COs: 3.2M out of 3.8M total (84%)
In-Range DSL Hhlds: apprx 2.5M (66% of total VZN hhlds)
While the lawyers churn through $$ each hour, debating the merits and damage...the fact is that Verizon has deployed DSL in PA about on par with every other state. PA has certainly not suffered greater "damage" by Verizon's broadband deployment schedule when compared other states. The only other big pipe option is cable. Comcast has pretty good coverage of the PA major metros...they can deliver 45MB to over 20% of the PA households today!
The only ones making money here are the lawyers. |
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 sporkmedrop the crantini and move it, sisterPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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| said by Vespid:
While the lawyers churn through $$ each hour, debating the merits and damage...the fact is that Verizon has deployed DSL in PA about on par with every other state. PA has certainly not suffered greater "damage" by Verizon's broadband deployment schedule when compared other states.
Well, the agreement wasn't about DSL. And if we want to round off the corners a bit and make everyone happy, the the state should rescind whatever tax breaks were given to VZ. No harm, no foul, right?
The issue isn't what type of crack Bell Atlantic was smoking when they started blabbering about a whole new "enhanced network" they would build that was capable of turning up 45Mb/s in 5 days, that's irrelavent. They should have thought that out a little better. If they took the tax breaks though, in all fairness, give them back. Or just give 44/45ths back.
DSL is certainly not an "enhanced network". It's end nodes hooked up to the same optical transport that carries voice and traditional data services. When you call the entire service footprint your network and talk about "enhancing" it, you're talking about end-to-end, which DSL is not.
If I recall correctly, ATM technology was just starting to bubble up then; it was to be the magic bullet that would reduce network costs by letting the same pipes carry voice, data and video; it was the first (and apprently the last) time the Bells were thinking about packetizing voice rather than dedicating a 64Kb channel for the duration of every call. As we know, this whole technology went down the crapper for the most part and plays a more general purpose role now. |
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Vespid
join:2002-09-24
Sharon, MA | Verizon was pitching technology they didn't have to regulators (& politicians) who were very happy to rubber stamp a deal that lacked teeth (but sounded great.) So now aside from TeleTruth's effort this entire matter would have been swept under the rug. Certainly the PUC should have been all over this commitment...especially if billions of dollars was involved. The PUC is possibly as guilty of inept regulation as Verizon is in selling broadband vapor.
The regulators need to be held accountable as well as the Telcos. |
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lesopp
join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL
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What about
Total RTs deployed that are DSL ready: ???
Total Hhlds served by RTs that are DSL ready: ???
In-Range DSL Hhlds fed from a RT: ???
I have heard nationally 40% of their customers are served from remote terminals. Assuming the same holds true for PA, the numbers would be significantly lower.
My neighbor works for Verizon and tells me they are busy deploying the Next Generation DLC specifically to support DSL. He also said Vz has not openly deployed DSL to RTs yet, but a test was underway at three RTs in Verizon's territory.
Verizon (aka, Bell Atlantic) never said they would deliver DS3's to the home. They said 45 Mbps for digital video transmission both upstream and downstream.
Can they deliver digital video to 20% of the homes in PA today? I believe the answer here is no since they unloaded their business that was competing with cable TV.
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| I'm not sure about this but I have heard that once an RBOC makes an RT DSL capable they then must offer that capability to the CLECs or DLECs at the wholesale rates. Also I hear that it is very expensive to upgrade some of the RT locations as they basically need to be rebuilt from scratch. So I can see why the RBOCs have been slow to deploy RT DSL but I must say that I would like my RT to be made DSL ready. I live quite close to it and would love to get rid of my way overpriced Cable Modem service that is down more than it is up for the less expensive DSL service.
Bring on the RT DSL Verizon!! |
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| reply to sporkme
It's end nodes hooked up to the same optical transport that carries voice and traditional data services
Your right it still hooks up the the optical transport at the speed at which the dslam is provisioned. unlike cable which at times is faster then dsl but not as dependable has to worry about load on the coaxial distribuiton line and also after it hooks up to the optical transport. That is a fact! |
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