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Doing some checking I find that OEN has a deal with Houston fiber company Phonoscope which already is running past 250,000 residences. »www.4fiber.tv/OENAssets/pressRel···unch.pdf Phonoscope also claims they are within 500 meters of 1.6 million homes in the Houston area. If this news is accurate, OEN could expand relatively quickly.

The symmetrical internet link is enticing as is their triple play capability. SBC could really hate to see this roll out and be successful. The question is "will they be successful"? A startup company with big ideas like this needs a lot of investment money. Can they get it during the years while money is going out a lot faster than it is coming in?

And Fision is the product name. The name of the company is Optical Entertainment Network. »www.4fiber.tv/ Here is a nice drawing of their planned Houston endeavor: »www.4fiber.tv/fisionToTheHome.htm
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Fission? Seems like a play on the name "Fios".

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said by djrobx See Profile :

Fission? Seems like a play on the name "Fios".

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I'll take a stab at the FISION(only 1 S) acronym.
FI Fiber
SI SImmetrical (I know that isn't how symmetrical is spelled)
ON Optical Network
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They could name it Frank for all I care! LOL!
Just bring some of that Symetrical fiber this way!
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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

Doing some checking I find that OEN has a deal with Houston fiber company Phonoscope which already is running past 250,000 residences. »www.4fiber.tv/OENAssets/pressRel···unch.pdf Phonoscope also claims they are within 500 meters of 1.6 million homes in the Houston area. If this news is accurate, OEN could expand relatively quickly.
Phonoscope, huh? They used to provide TV directly to a lot of places (mostly apartments/condos) around Houston, then they sold their residential business (to OpTel, now known as TVMax) to focus on the commercial market, and now they're back in the residential cable business, as themselves (that's what accounts for the 250k homes passed figure.)

Houston is really a bit of an anomaly -- most cities don't have that sort of deep competitive fiber build. Atlanta certainly doesn't outside of the major business districts...in most residential areas and in the suburbs in general, the only fiber there is belongs to BellSouth and Comcast or Charter.

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Optel turned into TVMax? That explains some things...
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