| reply to copperdoctor
Re: Fiber is DEAD DEAD DEAD ATTGUY, what are you smoking? I live in Japan and have a 100Meg FTTH service. FTTH has been around here for a few years, and let me tell you that the only thing that is dying is COPPER, fiber is starting to take off. Fiber is awesome, and will probably stay for years to come. Wireless can complement fiber, not substitute it. Sometimes it helps to look at other countries to see what will happen in the U.S. - such is the case with broadband, and wireless/cell phone etc. I met an American friend of mine a few months ago who was telling me that in his hometown the new 'big thing' was camera phones. Here they were the big thing about 2-3 years ago, I was talking to him about my video cell phone (which has been about since 2002) and how I video-cell-call my girlfriend... lol.
Getting back to the original topic, fiber has already been deployed through gas pipes here in Japan, the company doing it I believe is called USEN. I think they're only in Tokyo or some major area for now, but I heard the service is better than NTT's fiber services (B-FLETS) which is fiber that's on poles... the good thing about the fiber on the poles is that it's everywhere, I mean I live in a rural town with nothing but a bunch of old geezers and I've got FTTH.
Fiber - "If you build it, they will come". LOL ^_^ |
